Castlehead Churchyard And Tannahill's Monument, Main Road, Castlehead is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Monument. 3 related planning applications.
Castlehead Churchyard And Tannahill's Monument, Main Road, Castlehead
- WRENN ID
- fossil-brick-poplar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1985
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Castlehead Churchyard And Tannahill's Monument, Main Road, Castlehead, PA2 6AH
- OS grid reference
- NS 475 635
- Coordinates
- 55.84117, -4.43589
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castlehead Churchyard features a monument dedicated to Robert Tannahill, who lived from 1774 to 1810. This monument, dated 1867, is made of granite and has a Classical pedestal with a batter that supports an urn.
Local climate
Castlehead Churchyard And Tannahill's Monument, Main Road, Castlehead sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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