War Memorial, Helmsdale is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979.
War Memorial, Helmsdale
- WRENN ID
- second-pier-holly
- 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
- ND 025 153
- Coordinates
- 58.11666, -3.65645
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The War Memorial at Helmsdale is a prominent, tall, square, three-stage clock tower built around 1920. It is constructed of bullfaced ashlar with tooled dressings. The lower stage features shaped, projecting diagonal buttresses with stumpy terminal pinnacles. A door is centrally positioned on the north facade. Above, each elevation contains a single, narrow, round-headed window displaying a clock face, each framed by a continuous hoodmould. Further above are three narrow, round-headed, louvred lancets. The wallhead is corniced and topped with an ogee finialled roof. Commemorative plaques record the names of those who died in the First World War (1914-18) and the Second World War (1938-45).
Local climate
War Memorial, Helmsdale receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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