Birse War Memorial, Corsedardar Hill is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. War memorial.

Birse War Memorial, Corsedardar Hill

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 November 1980
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
NO 595 939
Coordinates
57.0349, -2.66821
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Birse War Memorial, designed by Dr. William Kelly around 1920, is a square-plan, squat obelisk dedicated to those who served in the 1st and 2nd World Wars. It is constructed from coursed, rough-faced grey and pink granite. The memorial features a base course and a tooled shaft adorned with a consecration cross and bands of lettering, with the top band reading "IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF BIRSE WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR." It is topped with a stepped, finely finished pyramidal cap.

Local climate

Birse War Memorial, Corsedardar Hill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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