Alexander Graham Fountain, Victoria Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. Fountain. 1 related planning application.

Alexander Graham Fountain, Victoria Street, Stromness

WRENN ID
outer-quartz-plum
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1998
Type
Fountain
Address
Alexander Graham Fountain, Victoria Street, Stromness, KW16 3AA
OS grid reference
HY 254 091
Coordinates
58.96325, -3.2978
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Alexander Graham Fountain, located on Victoria Street in Stromness, was created by Walter Macfarlane & Co and is dated 1901. This commemorative cast-iron fountain is situated in a small square between the Harbour Office and the Eventide Club buildings, providing access to the harbour. It features a shallow circular bowl supported by four scroll-headed hoofs. The central fluted shaft is adorned with an inscribed bronze shield, and an anthemion baluster with two flanking scrolls supports a tapering shaft above. The fountain is flanked to the east and west by decorative cast-iron bollards.

Local climate

Alexander Graham Fountain, Victoria Street, Stromness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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