Stocks and Whipping Post is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1972. A C15 Monument.

Stocks and Whipping Post

WRENN ID
late-hearth-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Windsor and Maidenhead
Constituency
Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1972
Type
Monument
Address
Stocks and Whipping Post, Church Hill, White Waltham
OS grid reference
SU 854 775
Coordinates
51.49027, -0.77062
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stocks and whipping post, located on Church Hill in White Waltham, date back to the late 15th century but were rebuilt in 1979. The structure features wooden stocks designed for two offenders, equipped with metal arm holders on the whipping post, which also has a padlock and chain. It is topped with a 20th-century wide gable plank roof supported by two oak posts that are braced to the wall plate. The site is enclosed by railings with spiked bars and includes a small padlocked gate in the north corner. This is a complete example of its kind, with the stocks having been restored in 1979 due to vandalism.

Local climate

Stocks and Whipping Post sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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