Shrub End War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 2018. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Shrub End War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- strange-sentry-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Shrub End War Memorial, Adjacent to the Church of All Saints, Shrub End Road, CO3 4RL
- OS grid reference
- TL 970 232
- Coordinates
- 51.87257, 0.86133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shrub End War Memorial is a First World War memorial located next to All Saints Church on Shrub End Road. It features a low cenotaph made of concrete blocks with steel reinforcements and concrete render. The memorial has two flutes, one on either side of the inscription, and a triangular top. On the front face, there is a small raised laurel wreath. Below this wreath is a marble plaque that bears the dedication "TO THE GLORIOUS DEAD, 1914 – 1918 (NAMES)."
Local climate
Shrub End War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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