Watson Fountain, Cadzow Street, Hamilton is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 September 1979. Fountain.

Watson Fountain, Cadzow Street, Hamilton

WRENN ID
lesser-cobalt-auburn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 September 1979
Type
Fountain
OS grid reference
NS 720 558
Coordinates
55.77883, -4.04223
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Watson Fountain, located on Cadzow Street in Hamilton, was built in 1893 and designed by architect Gavin Paterson from Hamilton, with sculptural work by Killock Brown from Glasgow. The fountain is made of finely finished grey granite ashlar, featuring polished pink and grey granite columns. It has an octagonal base with shell-head niches that contain bowls, alternating with relief panels, one of which depicts a portrait of Mr. Watson. The structure includes an open peristyle supported by eight granite columns that hold up an entablature with a fluted frieze. Atop the fountain is an ashlar fish scale dome with a bell profile and a circular finial. Inside the peristyle, there is a seated figure representing 'Industry,' holding a pick and a blow lamp.

Local climate

Watson Fountain, Cadzow Street, Hamilton 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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