Peel Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1984. Monument. 2 related planning applications.
Peel Monument
- WRENN ID
- roaming-threshold-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury North MP: Mr James Frith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1984
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Peel Monument, Holcombe Hill, BL8 4NR
- OS grid reference
- SD 777 163
- Coordinates
- 53.64342, -2.33805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Peel Monument is a square tower built between 1851 and 1852 as a tribute to Sir Robert Peel for his role in repealing the Corn Laws. The design was created by the members of the Monument Committee, which included Grant, Ashton, Knowles, Gorton, and possibly Cunliffe. At the request of William Grant, the Chairman, the tower was aligned with St Andrew's Church Tower as seen from his residence, Nuttall Hall. The monument is constructed of rubble, partly coursed, and stands 128 feet high. It features a narrow, slightly tapering upper stage with four stories, each having a single two-light mullioned window on each face and a corbelled battlemented top. The wide base consists of a single storey with one and two-light windows and is also battlemented, making it a prominent landmark.
Local climate
Peel Monument sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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