War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. War memorial.

War Memorial

WRENN ID
cold-hearth-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle upon Tyne
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial, Newburn Road
OS grid reference
NZ 165 653
Coordinates
54.98287, -1.74254
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The War Memorial, built around 1919, features a rock-faced painted stone plinth set on sandstone steps. It includes bronze plaques and a painted stone statue. The memorial has two square steps leading up to a tapered plinth, which supports a statue of a soldier holding a trailing rifle, with a mortar and a reel of cable positioned behind his left leg. Wreaths are depicted on two plaques that list the names of those from Newburn and the surrounding district who died in World War 1, located on the south and west sides; plaques on the north and east sides have been removed. A plaque on the steps reads "THEIR NAMES SHALL LIVE FOREVER."

Local climate

War Memorial receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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