War Memorial located at junction of Hall Road and Monument Court is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1985. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial located at junction of Hall Road and Monument Court
- WRENN ID
- floating-bracket-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1985
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial located at junction of Hall Road and Monument Court, Chopwell
- OS grid reference
- NZ 120 585
- Coordinates
- 54.92117, -1.81345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, located at the junction of Hall Road and Monument Court in Chopwell, was erected around 1919. It features a whitish granite statue of a soldier with his hands resting on a rifle. The memorial stands on a base of two steps, with a sloping panel on the south side that commemorates the people of Chopwell who died in the Second World War. The square pedestal has four elliptical-headed panels adorned with guttae, listing the names of those who fell in the Great War. Inscriptions on the base read: "WE ARE THE DEAD/ IF YE BREAK FAITH WITH US/ WE SHALL NOT SLEEP," and the frieze states "PRO PATRIA."
Local climate
War Memorial located at junction of Hall Road and Monument Court receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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