Murray Memorial, Shinness is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. 1 related planning application.
Murray Memorial, Shinness
- WRENN ID
- tilted-granite-mallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NC 555 130
- Coordinates
- 58.08292, -4.45077
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Murray Memorial at Shinness is an 1877 obelisk built in tooled ashlar stone, supported by a square plinth inscribed with lettering and standing on a roughly dressed granite stepped base. The memorial was erected to the memory of Kenneth Murray of Geanies (Easter Ross), who reclaimed the lands of Shinness, and to commemorate his services to the Duke of Sutherland and to agriculture. The obelisk itself is 33 feet high. Groome’s Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, published in 1885, provides additional details.
Local climate
Murray Memorial, Shinness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 77 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 59 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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