War Memorial, South Walls, Longhope, Hoy is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 January 2003. War memorial.

War Memorial, South Walls, Longhope, Hoy

WRENN ID
western-pediment-fog
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 January 2003
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
ND 303 908
Coordinates
58.7996, -3.2067
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The war memorial located on South Walls in Longhope, Hoy, was built in 1921. It features a granite Celtic cross adorned with carved Celtic designs. The memorial has an inscribed base and plinth and is set upon a rock-faced sandstone base. Surrounding the memorial is a low perimeter wall made of rock-faced, crenellated sandstone, which includes three steps leading up to it.

Local climate

War Memorial, South Walls, Longhope, Hoy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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