Obelisk Approximately 150 Metres East of Newton House is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. A C19 Monument.

Obelisk Approximately 150 Metres East of Newton House

WRENN ID
spare-transept-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 July 1989
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NZ 888 040
Coordinates
54.42375, -0.63185
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The obelisk located approximately 150 metres east of Newton House is a wellhead and obelisk, possibly dating from 1882. It is constructed from tooled sandstone and sandstone ashlar, featuring a timber sluice gate. The structure is square in plan and has a stepped plinth supporting a tall die with an overhanging flat cap, which is topped by the obelisk. The east and west sides of the die display long Latin inscriptions. The east side reads: "Quae dat aquas, saxo laiet Hospita nympha sub imo Sic tu cum dederis dona, Latere relis Nesciat sinistra Quid Dextra porrigat." The west side is largely illegible, but it includes the name Ionas Browne and the characters LXXXII. This obelisk is said to commemorate the transformation of moorland into a pleasure garden.

Local climate

Obelisk Approximately 150 Metres East of Newton House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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