Hamdon Hill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. War memorial.
Hamdon Hill War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- old-mullion-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Hamdon Hill War Memorial, Ham Hill Road, Stoke Sub Hamdon
- OS grid reference
- ST 477 173
- Coordinates
- 50.95284, -2.74584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hamdon Hill War Memorial is a First World War memorial built between 1920 and 1923. It is constructed from pecked ashlar Ham stone and features a three-square step base that measures about 4.5 metres wide and 1.5 metres high. Above this base is a cuboid plinth with one plain panel on each face and a simple cornice, topped by a stone obelisk that stands about 6 metres high. The names of the war dead are inscribed on the panels, and on the north face, there is an added bronze plaque listing the names of those who died in the Second World War. Additionally, a bronze wreath placed by the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, is set on the north face of the obelisk, commemorating the memorial's unveiling on 19th July 1923. This memorial is a prominent landmark located on the spur of Hamdon Hill, within the Ham Hill Country Park.
Local climate
Hamdon Hill War Memorial receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings