Hopetoun Monument, Byres Hill is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Monument.
Hopetoun Monument, Byres Hill
- WRENN ID
- third-garret-larch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NT 500 764
- Coordinates
- 55.97823, -2.80164
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Hopetoun Monument, built in 1824, is an impressive structure resembling an industrial stalk, situated atop Byres Hill. It features a circular section and includes an internal spiral stairway that leads to a parapet and viewpoint, which is cantilevered and supported by a machicolated corbel. The monument is constructed from squared and coursed red igneous whinstone, with a base course and a band course on the column and below the corbel. It has a round-arched doorway with an iron grill and a raised surround, as well as tall unglazed slit openings in the column.
Local climate
Hopetoun Monument, Byres Hill receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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 0.3°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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