War Memorial, Lower Hillhead, Lerwick is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. War memorial.

War Memorial, Lower Hillhead, Lerwick

WRENN ID
endless-facade-nightshade
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 August 1996
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
HU 474 414
Coordinates
60.15451, -1.14704
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial at Lower Hillhead in Lerwick was designed by Robert Lorimer in 1923 as a monument for the First World War, with additional memorials for the Second World War added around 1970. The memorial features a symmetrical design that includes a semicircular base made of battered stugged rubble, topped with a white granite cope set into the bank. The cope has scrolled stops on the eastern side, marking the entrance. At the center stands a white granite cross, which has a cruciform plinth supporting bronze plaques. This cross is set on an octagonal base and features a square shaft with shield and sword carvings on each face. There are also later rectangular monuments on the north and south sides, each with bronze plaques inset into their inner faces.

Local climate

War Memorial, Lower Hillhead, Lerwick sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% 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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