Mother Shipton's Stone at Ngr St 0702 3947 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Landscape feature.
Mother Shipton's Stone at Ngr St 0702 3947
- WRENN ID
- riven-rood-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Landscape feature
- Address
- Mother Shipton's Stone at Ngr St 0702 3947, Williton
- OS grid reference
- ST 070 394
- Coordinates
- 51.14692, -3.33075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mother Shipton's Stone is a landscape feature located in the park of Orchard Wyndham. It dates from the late 18th century to the early 19th century and is designed in the form of a Roman tombstone. The stone is made of monolithic red sandstone and stands about 2 meters high. It has a cambered head and features an incised face that is thought to represent a female figure, along with an indistinct Latin inscription below and an incised laurel wreath. This stone is a reconstruction of a Roman tombstone that was originally found in Cumberland by the Wyndhams of Orchard Wyndham.
Local climate
Mother Shipton's Stone at Ngr St 0702 3947 receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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