Drinking Fountain, The Children's Village, Humbie is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 June 1990.
Drinking Fountain, The Children's Village, Humbie
- WRENN ID
- under-lancet-oak
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1990
- OS grid reference
- NT 461 624
- Coordinates
- 55.85266, -2.86166
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a circa 1900 memorial drinking fountain, located within the former Humbie Children's Village. The fountain is comprised of a gabled shelter approximately 10 feet high, with harled walls and red-tiled skews. A round-arched panel is centrally positioned and inscribed with a dedication. It features a gadrooned and guilloched stone basin, from which the drinking spout has been removed, and a bronze medallion plaque depicting a girl's profile. The rear of the structure is blank. The fountain is dedicated to Marjory Charlotte Athanass Stewart, who was born on 10th April 1873 and died on 26th November 1898.
The Children's Village itself was built in 1906 in an Arts and Crafts style and provided holiday accommodation for children with disabilities. It later served as a residential care facility before closing in the 1990s and being redeveloped into private housing in 2008. The fountain is situated near number 4 Shillinghill.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain, The Children's Village, Humbie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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