Black Boy Fountain, Allan Park, Stirling is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1965. Fountain.

Black Boy Fountain, Allan Park, Stirling

WRENN ID
tired-forge-merlin
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1965
Type
Fountain
OS grid reference
NS 795 930
Coordinates
56.11533, -3.93796
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Black Boy Fountain, located in Allan Park, Stirling, is a mid-19th century structure created by Neilson & Co of Glasgow. It features a black painted cast iron design with a tiered structure set on an octagonal stone base. At the top of the fountain is a figure of a putto. The central column is decorated, tapered, and fluted, supporting a wide, shallow basin above, which is surmounted by another similar basin that holds a smaller basin. Above this is a figure of a small putto with a floral trumpet. The fountain is set in a low octagonal stone basin that includes four fish head water spouts.

Local climate

Black Boy Fountain, Allan Park, Stirling sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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