The Dog Stone is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 December 2010. Memorial.
The Dog Stone
- WRENN ID
- narrow-pillar-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 December 2010
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- The Dog Stone, Mynydd Varteg, Abersychan
- OS grid reference
- SO 251 067
- Coordinates
- 51.75433, -3.08577
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Dog Stone is a memorial made of cast iron mounted on a concrete plinth. It features a tall single iron sheet with a raised edge and an ogee top, as well as a base and a reinforcing rib on the rear side. At the top of the memorial, there is a figure of a resting dog with a raised snout set within a small recess. Below this figure is the inscription: 'In memory of CARLO, a celebrated setter, the property of H M Kennard Esq, Crumlin Hall, accidentally shot August 12th 1864'.
Local climate
The Dog Stone sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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