Burns Statue, Towns Moor, Irvine is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Statue.

Burns Statue, Towns Moor, Irvine

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 April 1971
Type
Statue
OS grid reference
NS 317 396
Coordinates
55.62119, -4.67387
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Burns Statue, located on Towns Moor in Irvine, was erected in 1894. It features a bronze statue of the poet Robert Burns, standing on a polished pink granite pedestal. The pedestal is classical in style, tapering towards the top, and rests on a square base adorned with armorial bronze panels.

Local climate

Burns Statue, Towns Moor, Irvine sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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