Bourne End War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 2016. War memorial. 4 related planning applications.
Bourne End War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- half-pedestal-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bourne End War Memorial, Near the Watermill Hotel, London Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1 2RJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 021 062
- Coordinates
- 51.74605, -0.52222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a First World War memorial, constructed around 1920. It stands on London Road, near the centre of Bourne End, close to the Grade II-listed Anchor public house. The memorial is set within a railed enclosure and sits on a paved stone foundation. It takes the form of a limestone cross with a Celtic head, rising from a tapering shaft. The shaft is set on a moulded and chamfered plinth, which in turn rests on a three-tier octagonal stone base. The cross is decorated with carved interlace and knotwork. An inscription in black lettering, “1914/1919”, is on the front (south) face of the shaft. The plinth is inscribed with a dedication “TO / THE GLORY OF GOD / AND TO THE / MEMORY / OF THE MEN / OF THIS VILLAGE / WHO FELL IN / THE GREAT WAR / NAMES.” The top tier of the stone base is inscribed “THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE".
Local climate
Bourne End War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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