Highland Mary Statue, Castle Hill, Dunoon is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Statue.
Highland Mary Statue, Castle Hill, Dunoon
- WRENN ID
- moated-quartz-lichen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1971
- Type
- Statue
- OS grid reference
- NS 175 763
- Coordinates
- 55.94564, -4.92328
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Highland Mary Statue, located on Castle Hill in Dunoon, was created in 1896 by sculptor D.W. Stevenson. It features a bronze figure mounted on a round ashlar pedestal, which has an octagonal cap and base. The pedestal is inscribed with the words "Burns Highland Mary."
Local climate
Highland Mary Statue, Castle Hill, Dunoon sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,690 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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 0.2°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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