Monument To Sir Hector Macdonald, Muir Of Allangrange is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Monument.
Monument To Sir Hector Macdonald, Muir Of Allangrange
- WRENN ID
- veiled-keep-hawk
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NH 550 522
- Coordinates
- 57.53709, -4.42245
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The monument to Sir Hector Macdonald, located in Muir of Allangrange, was built in 1903. It features a telescope-type tower that has two stages, each adorned with bold cornices and blocking courses, as well as small merlons at the top of each stage. The tower includes a tall architraved door, with a tall plaque situated in a corniced architrave directly above it. The structure is made of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Surrounding the tower is a circular dwarf wall topped with railings.
Local climate
Monument To Sir Hector Macdonald, Muir Of Allangrange sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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