Paxton War Memorial is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 2001. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Paxton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-crypt-river
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 2001
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- NT 932 528
- Coordinates
- 55.76921, -2.10902
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Paxton War Memorial, built around 1920, is made of pink sandstone ashlar and honors those who served in the 1st and 2nd World Wars. It features a Celtic cross with decorative carvings set on a stepped, rectangular base. There are embossed memorial plaques dedicated to the fallen. In front of the memorial, there are four squat, obelisk-shaped bollards that enclose the site, connected by paired chain links.
Local climate
Paxton War Memorial receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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