Lord Cobhams Column is a Grade I listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. A C18 Column.
Lord Cobhams Column
- WRENN ID
- broken-buttress-brook
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Column
- Address
- Lord Cobhams Column, Stowe
- OS grid reference
- SP 679 377
- Coordinates
- 52.03424, -1.0113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lord Cobham's Column is a tall stone fluted column built around 1740. It features an open belvedere topped with an urn that replaced a statue destroyed by lightning. While it is traditionally attributed to architect James Gibbs, it is known to have been significantly designed by landscape architect Capability Brown. The blocks at the base of the column were added by Valdre.
Local climate
Lord Cobhams Column sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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