Alexandra Fountain, Discovery Quay, Riverside Drive, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1995. Drinking fountain.

Alexandra Fountain, Discovery Quay, Riverside Drive, Dundee

WRENN ID
graven-column-ebony
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1995
Type
Drinking fountain
OS grid reference
NO 403 297
Coordinates
56.45618, -2.96912
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Alexandra Fountain, located at Discovery Quay on Riverside Drive in Dundee, is an early 20th-century drinking fountain designed in the Edwardian Baroque style. It features a light grey granite plinth and base, along with a black granite inscription band. The fountain itself is made of polished Peterhead granite and is adorned with four polished Peterhead granite Doric columns. These columns support a rib-domed and corniced canopy, also made of light grey granite, which is decorated with a swagged-etched frieze and topped with a gold-painted crown finial.

Local climate

Alexandra Fountain, Discovery Quay, Riverside Drive, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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