Lapraik's Cairn is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Monument.
Lapraik's Cairn
- WRENN ID
- standing-forge-dale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NS 644 268
- Coordinates
- 55.51681, -4.14832
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lapraik's Cairn was built in 1914 by the Lapraik Burns Club of Muirkirk to commemorate the location of the house of "Bauld Lapraik," who was a friend of the poet Robert Burns.
Local climate
Lapraik's Cairn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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