War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Harrow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 2001. Memorial. 4 related planning applications.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- vacant-kitchen-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harrow
- Constituency
- Harrow West MP: Gareth Thomas (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 2001
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 153 900
- Coordinates
- 51.59719, -0.33591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wealdstone War Memorial, designed by Herbert Walker, who passed away in 1950, was commissioned by the Wealdstone Urban District Council and completed in 1923. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a copper-sheathed spire topped with a wrought iron weather vane. The memorial includes marble inscription panels with lead letters that list the names of the fallen on three sides, while the fourth side has a low entrance. Each side of the memorial displays a clock face above cruciform window openings, which are set between pinnacles at the corners. The memorial is topped with an eight-sided low spire and a weather vane.
Historically, it was unveiled on 11 November 1923 by Lieutenant General Ironside alongside Oswald Mosley, MP, in memory of the 250 men from Wealdstone who lost their lives in the Great War. The memorial suffered bomb damage in August 1940.
Local climate
War Memorial 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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