Looe War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 2017. War memorial. 3 related planning applications.
Looe War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- former-screen-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Looe War Memorial, The Quay, Fore Street, East Looe, PL13 1DX
- OS grid reference
- SX 254 535
- Coordinates
- 50.35609, -4.45526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Looe War Memorial is a granite war memorial cross erected in 1921. It stands on a two-stepped square base, surmounted by a square plinth. The tapering rectangular shaft features a carved Celtic design on both the front (east) and rear faces and is topped by a Celtic wheel-head cross. Stone tablets with scrolled edges are set into the sides of the base. These tablets contain relief panels inscribed with the names of those who died in the First World War (1914-1919), the Second World War (1939-1945), and one individual who died in Afghanistan in 2009. Inscriptions on the east face of the plinth read “TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ IN HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF LOOE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ ALSO/ IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION/ OF THE SERVICES/ OF/ THOSE WHO RETURNED.” The other faces of the plinth bear similar inscriptions for the Second World War and Afghanistan. The memorial is situated within a garden area enclosed by metal railings, to which later memorial boards have been fixed. These boards are not considered to be of special architectural or historic interest.
Local climate
Looe War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- 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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