Valentine Gray Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 2002. A Georgian Monument. 3 related planning applications.
Valentine Gray Monument
- WRENN ID
- open-postern-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 2002
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Valentine Gray Monument, Church Litten, Newport and Carisbrooke
- OS grid reference
- SZ 500 889
- Coordinates
- 50.69809, -1.2932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Valentine Gray Monument is a Grade II listed structure erected in 1822. Made of Portland stone, it features a small square pedestal with inscribed panelled sides and a short obelisk topped with an urn finial. The inscriptions read: "To the Memory of Valentine Gray The Little Sweep Interred January the 5th AD 1822 In the 10th Year of His Age. In Testimony of The General Feeling for suffering Innocence. This Monument Is erected By Public Subscription." This monument was established by public subscription in memory of Valentine Gray, a boy chimney sweep who died due to mistreatment by his employer, Benjamin Davis. It is a notable example of a small late Georgian public monument.
Local climate
Valentine Gray Monument receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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