Obelisk on Weatherbury Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. Obelisk.
Obelisk on Weatherbury Castle
- WRENN ID
- third-shingle-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- Obelisk
- Address
- Obelisk on Weatherbury Castle, Milborne St. Andrew
- OS grid reference
- SY 806 962
- Coordinates
- 50.76568, -2.27508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The obelisk on Weatherbury Castle is a Grade II listed structure erected in 1761 by Edmund Morton Pleydell. It is made of brick with ashlar dressings. The base features a rectangular plinth with stone quoins and a moulded capping. The shaft is a tapering square that culminates in a splayed stone cap topped with a bowl finial. The plinth is inscribed with "EMP 1761." This obelisk is located in the center of Weatherbury Castle, which is a scheduled Ancient Monument, although the obelisk itself is not included in the scheduling.
Local climate
Obelisk on Weatherbury Castle receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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