Monument South of Nurses' Home is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. Monument.
Monument South of Nurses' Home
- WRENN ID
- patient-wall-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich MP: Matthew Pennycook (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument South of Nurses' Home, Romney Road Se10
- OS grid reference
- TQ 385 776
- Coordinates
- 51.48053, -0.00651
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This 18th-century monument is located south of the Nurses' Home on Romney Road. It features a limestone column that supports an urn and rests on a square plinth with sunk panel sides. Surrounding the monument is a wide stone step. There is no inscription on the monument.
Local climate
Monument South of Nurses' Home sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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