War Memorial, Kirkton Of Auchterhouse is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1992.

War Memorial, Kirkton Of Auchterhouse

WRENN ID
dark-bronze-dale
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 August 1992
OS grid reference
NO 343 382
Coordinates
56.53184, -3.06875
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The war memorial at Kirkton of Auchterhouse dates to around 1920. It is a columnar structure built from granite. The memorial features a corniced granite pedestal supporting a granite shaft. The shaft is decorated with polished Peterhead granite engaged angle comonettes and annuletted detail. Foliate sandstone capitals top the shaft, supporting a small, stylised Gothic birdcage shrine surmounted by a decorative cast-iron finial.

Local climate

War Memorial, Kirkton Of Auchterhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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