Benachally Monument, Benachally Summit is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1981. Monument.
Benachally Monument, Benachally Summit
- WRENN ID
- silver-lancet-plum
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1981
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NO 066 489
- Coordinates
- 56.62338, -3.52361
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Benachally Monument is a solid square dry-stone structure approximately 12 feet high. The upper part of the monument is corbelled out from the lower part, which features a pronounced entasis. There is no inscription on the monument. It was erected in 1830 by Messrs. McIntosh for Sir John Bisset of Riechip. The structure is currently collapsing.
Local climate
Benachally Monument, Benachally Summit sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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