Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 October 1978. Fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- watchful-ashlar-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1978
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Llannon Village, Llannon
- OS grid reference
- SN 539 083
- Coordinates
- 51.75467, -4.11664
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This drinking fountain is a sandstone structure built in the Gothic style. It features a large bronze spout and red granite plaques with gilded lettering, set within a blind chamfered arch that has a dripstone and stringcourse. Above the arch is a gable with roll-moulded coping, a cruciform finial, and buttresses, with a quatrefoil crest at the apex of the gable. The plaques inside the arch bear the inscriptions: "Give God the Praise" and "To the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of Rees Goring Thomas, MA, JP, DL, of Plas Llannon, this fountain is erected by his friends in fulfilment of his last wish that this village should have a plentiful supply of water. 1889." At the base of the fountain is a water trough with an overflow. The pavement next to the fountain has been raised and is supported by a small retaining wall that is not original.
It is said that the water was sourced from Ffynnon Non, but the supply has since been cut off.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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