Memorial Stone To William Pitt And Viscount Melville, South Lodge, Pitfour House Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Gate.
Memorial Stone To William Pitt And Viscount Melville, South Lodge, Pitfour House Estate
- WRENN ID
- cold-obsidian-oak
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Gate
- OS grid reference
- NJ 978 483
- Coordinates
- 57.52498, -2.03806
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The memorial stone to William Pitt and Viscount Melville, located at South Lodge on the Pitfour House Estate, dates from 1816. The structure features surviving outer piers, which are broad and circular in a Roman Doric style, lacking bases and topped with round abaci that support urns. A memorial tablet honoring Pitt and Viscount Melville is set between Roman Doric pilasters made of red granite in a screen wall on the eastern side.
Local climate
Memorial Stone To William Pitt And Viscount Melville, South Lodge, Pitfour House Estate receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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