War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1991. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lost-keep-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 September 1991
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Builth
- OS grid reference
- SO 041 510
- Coordinates
- 52.14967, -3.40288
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The War Memorial is made of Doulting stone and sits on a Llanelwedd stone base. It features four figures carved from Portland stone and includes bronze tablets with inscriptions. The memorial has a classical style podium that is raised on three steps, supporting a late medieval style octagonal tapering shaft topped with a cross. The statues depict four male figures representing the Army, Royal Navy, Air Force, and Merchant Navy.
Local climate
War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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