War Memorial Opposite Ripponden Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1984. War memorial.
War Memorial Opposite Ripponden Post Office
- WRENN ID
- silver-baluster-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1984
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial Opposite Ripponden Post Office, Oldham Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 038 197
- Coordinates
- 53.6741, -1.94259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, located opposite Ripponden Post Office, was likely erected around 1922, during a period when many similar monuments were built in the area. It features a rock-faced granite plinth with marble inset slabs, topped by a carved stone statue of a soldier dressed in First World War battle attire. The plinth is designed as a tapering obelisk and includes tablets on all four sides that list the names of those who fell in the wars of 1914-1919 and 1939-1945. The memorial is prominently positioned above the road in the town center.
Local climate
War Memorial Opposite Ripponden Post Office 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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