Trevithick Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 2005. Monument.
Trevithick Monument
- WRENN ID
- vast-gutter-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 2005
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Trevithick Monument, Station Road, Carn Brea
- OS grid reference
- SW 669 412
- Coordinates
- 50.22534, -5.26822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Trevithick Monument is a tribute to Richard Trevithick, built around the 1930s. It is a small, roughly-hewn granite monolith set on a plain base. The front of the monument is polished and features a carved crest of Cornwall at the top, with an inscription below that reads: "Richard Trevithick, Engineer, Inventor of the high-pressure steam engine. Born on April 13th 1771 in the house that stood on this site. Died on April 22nd 1833 at Dartford, Kent. This monument is erected as an appreciation of the great inventor and his gifts to the world."
Local climate
Trevithick Monument receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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