Drinking Fountain, Windmillhill Street, Motherwell is a Grade C listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 December 2001. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain, Windmillhill Street, Motherwell
- WRENN ID
- third-steel-thistle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke MP: Pamela Nash (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 December 2001
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- OS grid reference
- NS 756 565
- Coordinates
- 55.78617, -3.98479
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This late 19th-century drinking fountain is located on Windmillhill Street in Motherwell. It features a two-stage design with a domed canopy over a raised basin and a symmetrical layout, highlighted by a model stork as the centerpiece. The fountain is made of painted cast iron and has a square-plan canopy supported by columns at the corners, which have stiffleaf capitals. The second stage includes semicircular arches and a Lombard frieze around the reveal, with pierced scrollwork in the spandrels and rope-moulded central shield motifs. A narrow cornice is consoled at the corners, and the dome is adorned with pierced scrollwork and griffins at the corners, topped with an elaborate crown finial. The basin is splayed and rests on a composite column pedestal, with a two-stage foliate centerpiece that culminates in the model stork. The fountain stands approximately 1.5 metres tall.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain, Windmillhill Street, Motherwell sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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