Memorial of the Plague is a Grade II* listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1950. Memorial. 3 related planning applications.
Memorial of the Plague
- WRENN ID
- vast-marble-alder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1950
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Memorial of the Plague, Upper High Street, SO23 8UT
- OS grid reference
- SU 477 296
- Coordinates
- 51.06404, -1.31978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This monument commemorates the Great Plague of 1666. It was originally erected in 1759 and rebuilt in 1821 on the site of an earlier memorial. The monument takes the form of a Portland stone obelisk, set upon a square base with a rusticated finish. An inscription is present on the base, and is of very good quality. The memorial was erected by the Charitable Society of Natives, a society founded to assist those who survived the plague.
Local climate
Memorial of the Plague receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 2001
- 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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