War Memorial and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Monument.
War Memorial and Railings
- WRENN ID
- sombre-floor-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- War Memorial and Railings, Mottram Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 989 938
- Coordinates
- 53.44112, -2.01677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, built around 1920, is made of stone and features a rusticated stone base with angled buttresses designed in an eclectic style. It has circular corner columns that support a canopy adorned with pediments, finials, a dome, and a cross, which encloses the rolls of honour. On each side, there are plain iron railings.
Local climate
War Memorial and Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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