Price Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. Monument.
Price Monument
- WRENN ID
- sombre-solder-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1985
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Price Monument, Norton, Presteigne
- OS grid reference
- SO 284 686
- Coordinates
- 52.31149, -3.05026
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Price Monument is a polished red granite obelisk dating from the 19th century. It features a stepped granite plinth and a pedimented stem, all set on a stone pedestal. The north face of the monument is inscribed with leaded lettering that reads: "This Public Monument was erected by subscription to perpetuate the memory of Sir Richard Green Price, 1st Baronet, Born 1803 - Died 1887, whose services to the County of Radnor will long outlive his name etc."
Local climate
Price Monument receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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