1914-18 War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Rushcliffe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1987. War memorial.
1914-18 War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- old-threshold-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rushcliffe
- Constituency
- Rushcliffe MP: James Naish (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1987
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- 1914-18 War Memorial, Brookside, East Leake
- OS grid reference
- SK 552 262
- Coordinates
- 52.83066, -1.18169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The 1914-18 War Memorial, built around 1919, is located on the east side of Brookside in East Leake. It is constructed of ashlar stone, with some copper elements. The memorial features a hexagonal platform that supports a chamfered octagonal base and a stepped hexagonal plinth. Above this is a hexagonal column with a moulded base and a scalloped capital, which is topped by a single copper cross.
Local climate
1914-18 War Memorial 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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