The Fountain Of Nineveh, Fountain Road, Bridge Of Allan is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1977. Fountain. 2 related planning applications.

The Fountain Of Nineveh, Fountain Road, Bridge Of Allan

WRENN ID
nether-threshold-gorse
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1977
Type
Fountain
Address
The Fountain Of Nineveh, Fountain Road, Bridge Of Allan, FK9 4ET
OS grid reference
NS 791 971
Coordinates
56.15209, -3.94778
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Fountain of Nineveh, located on Fountain Road in Bridge of Allan, was built in the mid-19th century. It features a circular cast-iron basin set on a moulded ashlar base. Above this base stands a cast-iron fluted Roman Doric column that supports an upper basin. The column is topped with a capitalled pedestal adorned with dolphins and a shell at the top, culminating in a bird finial.

Local climate

The Fountain Of Nineveh, Fountain Road, Bridge Of Allan 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 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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