Tomont End Monument, Great Cumbrae Island is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971.
Tomont End Monument, Great Cumbrae Island
- WRENN ID
- guardian-dormer-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 181 592
- Coordinates
- 55.79263, -4.90183
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tomont End Monument is a stone obelisk erected in 1841 on Great Cumbrae Island. It serves as a memorial to two midshipmen from H.M.S. Sheerwater who perished when their boat capsized nearby.
Local climate
Tomont End Monument, Great Cumbrae Island sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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