Obelisk at Junction of Thrapston Road and Irthlingborough Road is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Obelisk at Junction of Thrapston Road and Irthlingborough Road
- WRENN ID
- drifting-moat-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Obelisk at Junction of Thrapston Road and Irthlingborough Road, Finedon
- OS grid reference
- SP 921 721
- Coordinates
- 52.33974, -0.64891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The obelisk at the junction of Thrapston Road and Irthlingborough Road was built around 1789. It was erected for Sir English Dolbn by Sumpter of Irthlingborough. The structure is made of squared coursed limestone and features a short obelisk standing on a square plinth with a plain cornice. Each face of the obelisk has a plain limestone tablet. It was likely erected as a direction pillar and to commemorate the return to sanity of King George III.
Local climate
Obelisk at Junction of Thrapston Road and Irthlingborough Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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