Statue at West End of Ladies Lake is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. Statue.

Statue at West End of Ladies Lake

WRENN ID
turning-merlon-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1985
Type
Statue
Address
Statue at West End of Ladies Lake, Silsoe
OS grid reference
TL 092 350
Coordinates
52.00353, -0.41046
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The statue at the west end of Ladies Lake is a mid-19th century stone figure set on a stone plinth, standing approximately 2 metres tall. It depicts an old man with a flowing beard, wearing a hat and a long cloak.

Local climate

Statue at West End of Ladies Lake sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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