Melville Monument, Dunmore House is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1977. Monument.
Melville Monument, Dunmore House
- WRENN ID
- silent-quartz-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1977
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NN 766 234
- Coordinates
- 56.3873, -3.99943
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Melville Monument, located at Dunmore House, was designed by James Gillespie Graham in 1812. It is a tall granite obelisk dedicated to Henry Dundas, who was the First Viscount Melville and Baron of Dunira, living from 1742 to 1811.
Local climate
Melville Monument, Dunmore House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 50 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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