Jubilee Drinking Fountain, Albert Road, Gourock is a Grade C listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1994. Drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.

Jubilee Drinking Fountain, Albert Road, Gourock

WRENN ID
waning-spire-solstice
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1994
Type
Drinking fountain
OS grid reference
NS 234 772
Coordinates
55.95614, -4.82946
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Jubilee Drinking Fountain, located on Albert Road in Gourock, was designed by Walter Macfarlane & Co and completed in 1897. This cast-iron drinking fountain, now no longer in use, was erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's Silver Jubilee. It features four slender columns that stand on a granite slab, supporting a round-arched dome adorned with foliate open-work. At the corners facing the road, there are two winged dragons. The fountain includes two vignettes of Queen Victoria, each inscribed with "Jubilee 1897," and two cartouches that display a stork motif. A water pipe at the center is inscribed with "J & R Howie Ltd, Hurlford, Ayrshire" along with the trademark 'puro'.

Local climate

Jubilee Drinking Fountain, Albert Road, Gourock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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