West Lydford War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 2016. War memorial.
West Lydford War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- haunted-wall-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- ST 565 318
- Coordinates
- 51.08453, -2.6221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Lydford War Memorial is a First World War memorial dating from around 1920. It is made of concrete and has a square plan. The memorial features a carved Celtic cross that sits on a tapering shaft, which is placed on a tapered plinth with a three-stepped base below. On the east face of the plinth, there is an inscription that reads, "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN FROM/ WEST LYDFORD/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1919/ (NAMES)".
Local climate
West Lydford War Memorial receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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