Drinking Fountain, Elmbank Drive Public Gardens, Kilmarnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002. Drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.

Drinking Fountain, Elmbank Drive Public Gardens, Kilmarnock

WRENN ID
forgotten-frieze-mist
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 August 2002
Type
Drinking fountain
OS grid reference
NS 432 377
Coordinates
55.60792, -4.49039
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The drinking fountain located in Elmbank Drive Public Gardens in Kilmarnock was built in 1910. It is made of polished grey and pink granite. The fountain features a square plinth with a scrolled base leading to the shaft, which has corner pillars that frame triangular niches on all four sides. A drinking basin is situated on the southeast face. Above the shaft, there are four pink granite columns that support a crowning cap, with an urn positioned at the center of these columns. An inscription on the northeast face reads: "Presented to the town by the Kilmarnock Equitable Co-operative Society Ltd in Commemoration of the Society's Jubilee October 1910."

Local climate

Drinking Fountain, Elmbank Drive Public Gardens, Kilmarnock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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