Kitchener Memorial, Marwick Head is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. Memorial. 2 related planning applications.

Kitchener Memorial, Marwick Head

WRENN ID
hallowed-eave-burdock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 December 1977
Type
Memorial
OS grid reference
HY 226 251
Coordinates
59.10634, -3.35211
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Kitchener Memorial at Marwick Head is a square tower built in 1926. It features battered walls made of coursed rubble and has a crenellated parapet. An inscription is present on the memorial.

Local climate

Kitchener Memorial, Marwick Head sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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