Drinking Fountain, Toll Green is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 August 2012. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain, Toll Green
- WRENN ID
- errant-garret-russet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 August 2012
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- OS grid reference
- NO 493 000
- Coordinates
- 56.19052, -2.81813
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The drinking fountain at Toll Green was made by George Smith and Co of Glasgow for Sun Foundry and is dated 1869. It features an ornately moulded cast-iron pillar design. The fountain has an octagonal roll moulded base and an octagonal shaft, which displays decorative thistle and scroll details on alternating faces, topped with an ogee-dome cap. A single column rises from the cap, showcasing an intricate floral motif on the shaft, which is surmounted by a foliated capital and an open-work orb finial.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain, Toll Green receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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