Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, Whitehill Street, Newcraighall is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.
Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, Whitehill Street, Newcraighall
- WRENN ID
- vast-buttress-cedar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- OS grid reference
- NT 320 718
- Coordinates
- 55.93517, -3.08932
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, located on Whitehill Street in Newcraighall, was built in 1907 by Sun Foundry in Glasgow. It features an open square plan made of cast iron, supported by four columns with decorative foliated capitals. These columns carry cusped arches adorned with overarch decoration, angle finials, and a dome. There are dolphins at the internal angles, although one is missing. The fountain includes a pillar design created by Glenfield and Kennedy from Kilmarnock.
Local climate
Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, Whitehill Street, Newcraighall receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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