Cat's Monument at Shugborough Hall to North of the House is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1953. Monument.
Cat's Monument at Shugborough Hall to North of the House
- WRENN ID
- second-basalt-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1953
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Cat's Monument at Shugborough Hall to North of the House, Colwich
- OS grid reference
- SJ 993 227
- Coordinates
- 52.80207, -2.01152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cat's Monument at Shugborough Hall, located to the north of the house, commemorates Admiral Anson's cat, which accompanied him on his voyage around the world. The monument features a tall rectangular stone pedestal that supports a stone urn, which is topped by a figure of a cat.
Local climate
Cat's Monument at Shugborough Hall to North of the House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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