Farley Mount Obelisk is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Obelisk.
Farley Mount Obelisk
- WRENN ID
- tenth-corbel-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Obelisk
- Address
- Farley Mount Obelisk, Hursley
- OS grid reference
- SU 403 290
- Coordinates
- 51.05927, -1.42622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farley Mount Obelisk is a stone, four-sided pyramid approximately 10 meters high, built in 1795 for Sir Paulet St John. It is located at the center of an earthwork on Farley Down. The obelisk was erected by Sir Paulet St John of Farley Chamberlayne in memory of a favorite hunter that leapt into a chalk pit 8 meters deep without injury to either the horse or rider.
Local climate
Farley Mount Obelisk receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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