Horstead War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 2017. War memorial.
Horstead War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- veiled-mantel-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Horstead War Memorial, Junction of Norwich Road and Mill Road, Norfolk, Horstead with Stanninghall
- OS grid reference
- TG 264 195
- Coordinates
- 52.7263, 1.35161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horstead War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, with additions for the Second World War. It is situated on the village green at the junction of Norwich Road and Mill Road, near the Grade II-listed Recruiting Sergeant Inn.
The memorial is made of limestone and features a Latin cross bottonée beneath a gabled canopy. The cross-head has cusps at each angle, with ornamental rays in between. This is supported by a slender octagonal shaft that has a decorative collar with floral motif carvings in relief. The shaft ends in a square base with inverse chamfered stops. This base rises from a four-sided plinth that is chamfered at the top and corner edges, also featuring inverse chamfered stops at the corners. The plinth has a four-sided chamfered foot, which sits atop a two-stepped octagonal base.
The main inscription is located on the west face of the plinth and reads: "TO THE MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ HORSTEAD/ WHO DIED FOR/ KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ MAY THEY REST IN PEACE." The names of 17 men are listed on the other sides of the plinth.
The dedication for the Second World War is found on the west face of the plinth foot, directly below the main inscription, and includes the names of two men who died between 1939 and 1945. All lettering is incised and painted black.
Local climate
Horstead War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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