Macquarie's Mausoleum, Gruline, Mull is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Mausoleum.
Macquarie's Mausoleum, Gruline, Mull
- WRENN ID
- white-lead-lake
- Grade
- A
- 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
- Mausoleum
- OS grid reference
- NM 549 398
- Coordinates
- 56.48663, -5.98211
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Macquarie's Mausoleum in Gruline, Mull, was built in 1824 and features a Gothick style. It is a small, oblong structure made of ashlar stone with a gabled roof and saddle-back skews. The mausoleum has buttresses and marble insets with inscriptions at both ends. It is situated within a circular enclosure that is surrounded by a rubble wall topped with spear-head railings.
Local climate
Macquarie's Mausoleum, Gruline, Mull sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,020 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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