Jubilee Fountain, High Street, Nairn is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. Drinking fountain.

Jubilee Fountain, High Street, Nairn

WRENN ID
fading-doorway-harvest
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 1981
Type
Drinking fountain
OS grid reference
NH 882 563
Coordinates
57.58322, -3.87097
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Jubilee Fountain, located on High Street in Nairn, was built in 1897 and is designed in the Neo-Jacobean style. This hexagonal drinking fountain is made of red polished granite. It features a stepped base with two troughs that are fed by spouts shaped like lion heads. Above this base is a hexagonal plinth that supports six polished granite miniature Roman Doric columns, which encircle another trough that is also fed by lion head spouts mounted on a central column. The fountain includes a frieze and parapet adorned with strapwork detail and the dates 1837-1897. An ornate wrought-iron lamp stand is present, although the gas lamp and bracket have been removed.

Local climate

Jubilee Fountain, High Street, Nairn receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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