Obelisk, About 750 Metres West of Helmingham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. A C.1860 Monument.
Obelisk, About 750 Metres West of Helmingham Hall
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-foundation-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TM 178 576
- Coordinates
- 52.17422, 1.18511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The obelisk, built around 1860, is located about 750 meters west of Helmingham Hall. It stands approximately 20 meters tall on a mound that is about 7 meters high. Constructed of red brick, the obelisk features a square plinth that is about 2.5 meters high, with a square indentation on each face. The needle-shaped obelisk tapers to a width of 0.5 meters at the top. This structure is a prominent landscape feature in the center of Helmingham Park. The mound itself was part of an 18th-century wilderness garden, and bricks from a demolished summerhouse built around 1760, along with a brick wall, were reused in the construction of the obelisk. The site is included as Grade I in the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Local climate
Obelisk, About 750 Metres West of Helmingham Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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