War Memorial Seat is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. War memorial.
War Memorial Seat
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-plinth-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial Seat, Washfield
- OS grid reference
- SS 936 153
- Coordinates
- 50.92786, -3.51483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial Seat is a First World War memorial built around 1918, designed as a shelter with a seat inside. It is constructed from stone rubble and features a hipped slate roof at both ends. The shelter has a rectangular shape and is open at the front, with a central entrance flanked by two chamfered timber posts that rest on low stone rubble walls. These posts, along with sections of the wall that extend on the front elevation, support a timber wallplate inscribed with the words, "For God, For King, For Country. To Commemorate the Great War 1914-18." There is also a granite inscription tablet on the front wall to the right, although the lettering is very worn. This distinctive village war memorial is located on a small green in front of a disused schoolhouse.
Local climate
War Memorial Seat receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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