Caston War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 2017. War memorial.
Caston War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- fossil-crypt-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Caston War Memorial, Village Green, Norfolk, NR17 1DB
- OS grid reference
- TL 958 975
- Coordinates
- 52.54076, 0.88668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Caston War Memorial is made of grey Aberdeen granite and is situated in the northern part of a green in the center of the village, at the junction of The Street and Stow Bedon Road in Caston, Norfolk. The memorial features a stylised Celtic wheel-headed cross with knot-work relief carvings, which is set on a tapering shaft and a tapering four-sided plinth that bears inscriptions. This is placed on a two-stepped base. The granite memorial is supported by a wider two-stepped base made of concrete. At each corner of the lowest and outermost step of the concrete base, there are four moulded four-sided posts.
The inscriptions are carved in relief and read: AUG. 4TH 1914 - NOV. 11TH 1918/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ (NAMES)// 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES).
Local climate
Caston 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
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