Bolventor War Memorial and dwarf walls is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 2017. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Bolventor War Memorial and dwarf walls
- WRENN ID
- grey-landing-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bolventor War Memorial and dwarf walls, Launceston, Altarnun, PL15 7TS
- OS grid reference
- SX 183 767
- Coordinates
- 50.56208, -4.56618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a First World War memorial, likely erected in the 1920s. It is prominently situated in the village, opposite the Grade II-listed Jamaica Inn. The memorial consists of a two-stepped, square base, a tall plinth with a chamfered capping stone, and a tapering shaft rising to a wheel-head cross. The lower part of the shaft is inscribed with the dates 1914-1918. The front (north-west) face of the plinth has the inscription "ERECTED, BY THE, INHABITANTS AND FRIENDS, OF BOLVENTOR, TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE FALLEN, AND IN HONOUR, OF ALL THOSE WHO SERVED, FROM THE PARISH, THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES, FOR, KING AND COUNTRY, (NAMES of the Fallen), RIP." The sides of the plinth each carry the inscription "HONOURABLE SERVICE" and record the names of those who served and returned. The memorial stands within a small Remembrance garden, which is bounded by dwarf walls of stone rubble to the sides and rear. Modern post and chain-link fencing is excluded from the listing.
Local climate
Bolventor War Memorial and dwarf walls sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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