Obelisk 10 Yards to Rear of Number 6 (Home Farm House) is a Grade II* listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1953. Obelisk.
Obelisk 10 Yards to Rear of Number 6 (Home Farm House)
- WRENN ID
- guardian-hinge-rook
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1953
- Type
- Obelisk
- OS grid reference
- TQ 138 636
- Coordinates
- 51.36072, -0.36591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The obelisk, located 10 yards to the rear of Number 6 (Home Farm House) in Esher, dates from the early 18th century. It is made of stone and stands on a square moulded plinth. The obelisk shaft is approximately 50 feet high. Inscriptions on the sides of the plinth commemorate the purchase of the estate by Sir John Vanbrugh, the construction of Claremont House by Henry Holland for Lord Clive, and include a memorial inscription to Prince Leopold and Princess Charlotte.
Local climate
Obelisk 10 Yards to Rear of Number 6 (Home Farm House) 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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