War Memorial in Front of Former Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial in Front of Former Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- standing-bronze-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial in Front of Former Town Hall, Stamford Road, Mossley
- OS grid reference
- SD 973 020
- Coordinates
- 53.51514, -2.04218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, located in front of the former Town Hall, was erected around 1920. It features a marble statue of a robed female figure holding a book in one hand, which stands on a polished granite base. The statue is set on a tapering square stone plinth. An inscription on the memorial states: "erected on behalf of the town by Alderman and Mrs. J.A. Bottomley". The memorial is surrounded by plain iron railings.
Local climate
War Memorial in Front of Former Town Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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