Cholera Monument, Howard Park, Howard Park Drive, Kilmarnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002. Monument.

Cholera Monument, Howard Park, Howard Park Drive, Kilmarnock

WRENN ID
twelfth-pinnacle-grain
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 August 2002
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NS 425 370
Coordinates
55.60124, -4.50126
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Cholera Monument in Howard Park, Kilmarnock, is a small stone memorial built in 1832 to honor the victims of cholera. It is surrounded by a low, single railing and features small stone piers adorned with diamond carvings. The monument includes a plinth, a string course, a square shaft that holds a memorial plaque, and is topped with a cushion cap.

Local climate

Cholera Monument, Howard Park, Howard Park Drive, Kilmarnock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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