Flywheel And Anvil, East Esplanade, East Clyde Street, Helensburgh is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971. Memorial.

Flywheel And Anvil, East Esplanade, East Clyde Street, Helensburgh

WRENN ID
vast-string-weasel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 May 1971
Type
Memorial
OS grid reference
NS 301 820
Coordinates
56.00156, -4.72511
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Flywheel and Anvil, located on East Esplanade at East Clyde Street in Helensburgh, was created in 1912. This memorial features a cast iron flywheel and anvil from the ship Comet, arranged to commemorate Henry Bell, the designer of the ship, which was launched in 1812.

Local climate

Flywheel And Anvil, East Esplanade, East Clyde Street, Helensburgh sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,870 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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