War Memorial, Main Street, Ormiston is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1992. War memorial. 1 related planning application.

War Memorial, Main Street, Ormiston

WRENN ID
dusted-basalt-rain
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1992
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial, Main Street, Ormiston, EH35 5HX
OS grid reference
NT 411 692
Coordinates
55.91265, -2.94264
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial, located on Main Street in Ormiston, was designed by Finandra Bose in 1925. It is situated in front of the Miners' Welfare Institute and features a semi-circular enclosure made of red sandstone ashlar, which is supported by piers. The roadside is closed off by decorative wrought-iron railings. At the center stands a banded ashlar column topped with Ionic capitals, which supports a bronze figure of a nude youth. The base of the column includes a bronze inscription panel commemorating those who fell in the First World War, with additional names from the Second World War flanking it.

Local climate

War Memorial, Main Street, Ormiston receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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