Figure of Elderly Man in Poets Walk at Anglesey Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. Statue.
Figure of Elderly Man in Poets Walk at Anglesey Abbey
- WRENN ID
- sacred-joist-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1984
- Type
- Statue
- Address
- Figure of Elderly Man in Poets Walk at Anglesey Abbey, Quy Road, Lode
- OS grid reference
- TL 530 623
- Coordinates
- 52.23776, 0.23956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The statue of an elderly man is located in Poets Walk at Anglesey Abbey. It was likely created in the early 20th century and is made of stone. The figure is depicted wearing a fleece-lined robe. It has been identified as representing Winter, according to an unpublished survey report by J Kenworthy-Browne for the National Trust in 1980, or possibly the poet John Dyer, who lived from 1700 to 1758, as noted in Bunt's article on garden sculpture at Anglesey Abbey published in Connoisseur in 1949.
Local climate
Figure of Elderly Man in Poets Walk at Anglesey Abbey sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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