Plenmeller War Memorial Cairn is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 2016. War memorial.
Plenmeller War Memorial Cairn
- WRENN ID
- grey-moat-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Plenmeller War Memorial Cairn, C1, 850m South-West of Penpeugh, Plenmeller Common, Plenmeller with Whitfield, NE47 7DE
- OS grid reference
- NY 748 610
- Coordinates
- 54.94383, -2.39402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Plenmeller War Memorial Cairn is located at an elevation of 300 meters, approximately 1,850 meters south-west of Penpeugh and 2,400 meters due east of Plenmeller Road. It is a carefully constructed dry-stone cairn, standing about 2 meters tall, situated on a stone outcrop that overlooks former open-cast coal workings to the south.
A metal plaque affixed to a concrete base in front of the memorial bears the inscription: "WAR MEMORIAL CAIRN/ ERECTED BY/ TYNEDALE SHEPHERDS/ IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO DIED IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918."
Local climate
Plenmeller War Memorial Cairn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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