Wallace's Monument, Barnweill Hill is a Grade A listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 October 2007. Monument.
Wallace's Monument, Barnweill Hill
- WRENN ID
- secret-bronze-moon
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 October 2007
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NS 406 294
- Coordinates
- 55.53303, -4.52633
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Wallace's Monument, located on Barnweill Hill, is a Grade A listed Gothic tower designed by Robert Snodgrass Sr between 1855 and 1857. The tower has a square plan and consists of three stages, topped with a pinnacled parapet. It is constructed from polished sandstone ashlar and features a base course, string courses, and a corbelled, shouldered band course between the second and third stages. The parapet is machicolated and crenellated, adorned with circular angle pinnacles capped with conical roofs featuring thistle finials, as well as square-plan wallhead pinnacles topped with ogee caps and ball finials. The southeast elevation includes a diagonally-boarded timber door set within a Tudor-arched, roll-moulded doorway that has a hoodmould. Similar inscription recesses can be found on the other elevations. The second stage features round-arched recesses, while the third stage has paired round-arched recesses.
Local climate
Wallace's Monument, Barnweill Hill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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