Robert Pollock Monument is a Grade C listed building in the East Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 September 1978. Monument.

Robert Pollock Monument

WRENN ID
stranded-clay-sage
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Renfrewshire
Constituency
East Renfrewshire MP: Blair McDougall (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 September 1978
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NS 516 525
Coordinates
55.74365, -4.3649
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Robert Pollock Monument, built around 1898, is a free-standing, tapered granite structure. It features a scrolled finial and has an inset bronze, low-relief portrait of Robert Pollock, a poet who lived from 1798 to 1827.

Local climate

Robert Pollock Monument sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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