Fountain, The Square, Tomintoul is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987.
Fountain, The Square, Tomintoul
- WRENN ID
- winding-finial-ebony
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- OS grid reference
- NJ 168 187
- Coordinates
- 57.25183, -3.37922
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a 1915 drinking fountain situated in The Square, Tomintoul. The fountain is constructed from cast iron and has a square shape with chamfered angles. It features water spouts on each face, below which are projecting semi-circular basins. Above the basins stands a painted stone female figure bearing an urn. The fountain sits upon a square, stepped platform and is flanked by two cast-iron stools, inscribed "STEP UP BAIRNS". Dedication plaques on two sides of the fountain state that it was “Presented by Robert Grant M.D. to his native village as a memento of his boyhood, 1915”.
Local climate
Fountain, The Square, Tomintoul sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 81 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 62 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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