Waterloo Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. Monument.
Waterloo Monument
- WRENN ID
- half-fireplace-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Waterloo Monument, Castle Hill, Great Torrington
- OS grid reference
- SS 498 187
- Coordinates
- 50.94899, -4.13924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waterloo Monument is a stone obelisk built in 1816, presented by the ladies of Torrington. It is located partway down the steeply sloping common land at the southeast corner of the town. The monument is sharply tapered, featuring sides with sunk panels that have pointed heads.
Local climate
Waterloo Monument sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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