War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 March 1994. House.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- fossil-lime-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- War Memorial, Overton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 372 418
- Coordinates
- 52.97001, -2.93536
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The War Memorial, built between 1921 and 1922 through public donations, is made of red sandstone ashlar and features bronze inscription plates. It consists of a short pylon that stands on a chamfered base, which is elevated on a stepped plinth. The pylon is adorned with a low relief laurel wreath emblem and a laurel-leaf frieze, with the inscription plates mounted on the base.
Local climate
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 lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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