Memorial to Queen Victoria adjacent to No 6 (Fountain Cottage) is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1989. Memorial.

Memorial to Queen Victoria adjacent to No 6 (Fountain Cottage)

WRENN ID
standing-spandrel-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1989
Type
Memorial
OS grid reference
SS 316 247
Coordinates
50.99737, -4.40048
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Memorial to Queen Victoria, created by Countess Feodore Gleichen, is located adjacent to No 6 (Fountain Cottage) in Clovelly. It was erected in 1901 and is made of Mansfield stone. The memorial is a rectangular upright structure topped with a hipped capping. It features a relief bust of Queen Victoria along with the inscription "VICTORIA REGIAN IMPERATIX." Below the bust is a shell-shaped drinking bowl, and beneath that is another inscription that reads, "To The Honoured Memory Of A Great Queen This Fountain Was Raised The Year of Our Lord God 1901 by Christine Hamlyn."

Local climate

Memorial to Queen Victoria adjacent to No 6 (Fountain Cottage) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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