Horlicks War Memorial, Slough is a Grade II listed building in the Slough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 2018. War memorial.
Horlicks War Memorial, Slough
- WRENN ID
- shifting-sentry-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Slough
- Constituency
- Slough MP: Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Horlicks War Memorial, Slough, Glaxo Smithkline, 11 Stoke Poges Lane, SL1 3NW
- OS grid reference
- SU 972 804
- Coordinates
- 51.51489, -0.59979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Horlicks War Memorial is a stone memorial from 1949, featuring a sculpture titled 'Grief' by Sir William Reid Dick. It is located in the grounds of the Horlicks factory in Slough.
The memorial is positioned to the south-east of the car park and north of the factory's main reception. Its stone base is designed as a simplified classical pedestal with a moulded base and head. The pedestal has a battered profile, tapering in size through three stepped bands as it rises to the upper moulding. It is set upon four stone steps, with the first two steps forming a circular shape and the upper two being square.
On the south side, the main dedicatory inscription reads 'LEST WE FORGET'. Below this, a subsidiary inscription states 'HORLICKS WAR MEMORIAL/TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/IN THE WARS OF/1914-1918 1939-1945'. The other sides of the memorial list the names, ranks, and countries of two family members and 23 Horlicks employees who lost their lives in the First or Second World War.
The bronze statue is life-sized, depicting a tall, barefoot female figure draped in a long shawl. Her face is tilted downward, expressing grief as she holds the shawl to her lips with her left hand.
Local climate
Horlicks War Memorial, Slough sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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