War Memorial and Dwarf Walls, Steps and Piers Surrounding is a Grade II listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. War memorial. 4 related planning applications.

War Memorial and Dwarf Walls, Steps and Piers Surrounding

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Tyneside
Constituency
Tynemouth MP: Sir Alan Campbell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 February 1986
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial and Dwarf Walls, Steps and Piers Surrounding, the Links
OS grid reference
NZ 354 728
Coordinates
55.04845, -1.44745
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The War Memorial, built around 1919, is located in Whitley Bay on the east side of The Links. It is made of granite and features bronze decorations and plaques. The memorial consists of a tall tapered square column with a bronze wreath decoration beneath a Scotia-moulded and banded coping. Each face of the base has three bronze plaques on projecting panels that list the names of those who died in both world wars and commemorate the memorial's construction, which was funded by £7,000 from public subscriptions and £1,000 from local authority funds, with 90% of the endowment fund designated for the dependants of the deceased. Surrounding the memorial are dwarf walls and semi-circular steps, with flat-coped circular walls on the east and west sides and three steps on the north and south sides. Low square piers flank the steps, and there are 20 tapered square piers in the outer circle that formerly held a chain.

Local climate

War Memorial and Dwarf Walls, Steps and Piers Surrounding receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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