Cemetery, Barrhill Road, Cumnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1977. Graveyard.
Cemetery, Barrhill Road, Cumnock
- WRENN ID
- second-railing-sepia
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1977
- Type
- Graveyard
- OS grid reference
- NS 570 203
- Coordinates
- 55.45562, -4.26236
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The cemetery on Barrhill Road in Cumnock was established in 1756 and includes a small burial enclosure that contains the grave of Rev Alexander Peden, a notable figure from 1626 to 1686. The site features a quadrilateral enclosure made of old rubble walls and contains several interesting monuments. Among these is a gothic obelisk created by R Ingram in 1891, dedicated to Prophet Peden.
Local climate
Cemetery, Barrhill Road, Cumnock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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