The Packet Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 1975. Monument.
The Packet Monument
- WRENN ID
- late-footing-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1975
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- The Packet Monument, the Moor, Falmouth
- OS grid reference
- SW 806 328
- Coordinates
- 50.15487, -5.07245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Packet Monument is a granite obelisk built in 1898 through public subscription to honor the gallant officers and men of Her Majesty's Post Office and Packet Service who sailed from Falmouth between 1688 and 1852. The monument consists of three sections and stands on a panelled pedestal, which is set on a stepped rock-faced granite base surrounded by a granite kerb.
Local climate
The Packet Monument receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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