Ickburgh War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 2017. War memorial.
Ickburgh War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- distant-sill-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Ickburgh War Memorial, Ashburton Road, Norfolk, IP26 5JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 813 949
- Coordinates
- 52.52204, 0.67171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ickburgh War Memorial is a First World War memorial located in an enclosed area on the north side of Ashburton Road.
The memorial features a stone statue of a seated mourning woman, who is draped in a shawl covering her head and shoulders. She holds a wreath and leans against a jagged piece of rock. The statue is set on a four-stepped base that rises to a square pedestal with a moulded cornice, supported by pilasters at each corner. These pilasters have chamfered stops and rest on a narrow block foot, which is chamfered along the top edge except at the corners. The entire structure is topped by a two-tiered plinth on a narrow, square stone base.
On the south face of the pedestal, an inscription in leaded lettering reads: "THIS MEMORIAL/ WAS ERECTED IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS/ PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918." The names of the deceased are also inscribed in leaded lettering on the east and west faces of the pedestal.
The memorial is enclosed by a rectangular area bounded by a regular-coursed brick dwarf wall topped with decorative metal railings featuring fleur-de-lis finials. Entrance gates are located on the southern side of the enclosure.
Local climate
Ickburgh War Memorial 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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