Obelisk at Junction of Temple Road and South Parade is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1990. Monument.
Obelisk at Junction of Temple Road and South Parade
- WRENN ID
- idle-banister-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1990
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Obelisk at Junction of Temple Road and South Parade, Matlock Bath
- OS grid reference
- SK 294 580
- Coordinates
- 53.11846, -1.56213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The obelisk at the junction of Temple Road and South Parade is a structure from the 1820s. It features a tapering gritstone shaft divided into two sections, standing approximately 3.5 metres high, and is set on a gritstone plinth. The shaft has painted lettering on three sides, displaying the inscription 'TEMPLE HOTEL'. This obelisk is depicted in an engraving from 1830 and was specifically built to mark the location of the Temple Hotel, which is a listed building (grade II) but not visible from the road.
Local climate
Obelisk at Junction of Temple Road and South Parade receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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