Fountain, Main Street, Portmahomack is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Fountain.

Fountain, Main Street, Portmahomack

WRENN ID
shadowed-chancel-oak
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1971
Type
Fountain
OS grid reference
NH 915 845
Coordinates
57.83743, -3.82796
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The fountain on Main Street in Portmahomack was made by MacFarlane Foundry and is dated 1887. It is a painted cast-iron structure featuring a cherub on a plinth in the center of a basin, holding a fish from which water pours. This is supported by a fluted pedestal. The fountain is topped with a domed canopy that is held up by four fluted decorative columns, and it has a lamp bracket at the apex. The entire fountain stands on a square base.

Local climate

Fountain, Main Street, Portmahomack receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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