Drinking Fountain, Main Street, Carlops is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971.
Drinking Fountain, Main Street, Carlops
- WRENN ID
- idle-eave-blackthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 161 561
- Coordinates
- 55.79099, -3.33943
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a drinking fountain dated 1860, situated on Main Street in Carlops. It consists of a well and drinking fountain set within a round-headed alcove. The alcove is flanked by swept, coped walls, which are topped with pyramidal finials. A cast iron lamp fixture is positioned above the archway, and a carved urn finial sits at the apex of the structure. The fountain is constructed from pale freestone and bears the initials of its donor, Hugh Horatio Brown of Newhall.
This is a well-detailed example of a mid-19th century drinking fountain. It is prominently located beside the road and enhances the character of the village streetscape. The fountain was donated by the Brown family, who resided at Newhall House in the nearby Penicuik Parish. The structure was surveyed again in 2010, resulting in an updated listing.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain, Main Street, Carlops sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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