Sir John Fowler Memorial Clock, Argyle Street, Ullapool is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Sir John Fowler Memorial Clock, Argyle Street, Ullapool
- WRENN ID
- sacred-column-cream
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 127 940
- Coordinates
- 57.89617, -5.16025
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1899, the Sir John Fowler Memorial Clock is a handsome cast-iron clock tower situated on Argyle Street, Ullapool. The structure begins with a square plinth, which supports a fluted column. Paired lamp brackets are positioned along the column. At the top is a Corinthian capital surmounted by a square, pedimented clock face, with a clock face visible on each side. The clock is topped with a terminal urn and a decorative weather vane. The memorial was erected in remembrance of Sir J Arthur Fowler of Braemore, who died on March 25, 1899, aged 44, and his son, Sir John Edward Fowler, who was killed in France in 1915. A separate memorial exists for the first baronet, Sir John Fowlet of Braemore, at Lochbroom parish church. The clock was likely manufactured by MacFarlane’s of Glasgow. The statutory address is Ullapool Quay Street.
Local climate
Sir John Fowler Memorial Clock, Argyle Street, Ullapool sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,720 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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