Garendon Park, The Obelisk is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1965. Obelisk.

Garendon Park, The Obelisk

WRENN ID
lapsed-clay-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Charnwood
Constituency
Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1965
Type
Obelisk
Address
Garendon Park, The Obelisk, Ashby Road, Stonebow Village
OS grid reference
SK 508 198
Coordinates
52.77405, -1.24755
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Obelisk at Garendon Park is a structure from the 1730s, designed by Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon, who died in 1737. It is made of red brick and rendered, supported by a thick iron plate resting on four ball feet. The obelisk stands on a stone pedestal that features a cornice and base moulding.

Local climate

Garendon Park, The Obelisk sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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