Monument To The Fourth Earl Of Aberdeen, Hill Of Ythsie is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 September 1984. Monument.
Monument To The Fourth Earl Of Aberdeen, Hill Of Ythsie
- WRENN ID
- night-rotunda-claret
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 September 1984
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NJ 884 314
- Coordinates
- 57.37352, -2.19399
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The monument to the Fourth Earl of Aberdeen, located on the Hill of Ythsie, was built between 1861 and 1862. It features a square tower constructed from coursed red granite with dressed quoins. The lower stage of the tower is steeply battered, and it has a corbelled and crenellated parapet, which includes a single crenel on each face.
Local climate
Monument To The Fourth Earl Of Aberdeen, Hill Of Ythsie receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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 0.2°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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