Southern Water Fountain, Allanton is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Fountain.

Southern Water Fountain, Allanton

WRENN ID
heavy-panel-falcon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1997
Type
Fountain
OS grid reference
NT 865 542
Coordinates
55.78099, -2.21562
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Southern Water Fountain in Allanton, dated 1875, is a Baroque cast-iron fountain set within a roughly squared and snecked sandstone wall that features rounded coping. The fountain includes a shouldered, round-arched niche with the date embossed near the top of the back wall and a handle, along with a basin beneath. The upper surround is flamboyant, adorned with cherubs playing instruments, flanked by foliage, and a mask-head at the center above.

Local climate

Southern Water Fountain, Allanton receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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