War Memorial, Wellington Square, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1999. War memorial.

War Memorial, Wellington Square, Ayr

WRENN ID
weathered-chapel-spring
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1999
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
NS 334 217
Coordinates
55.46121, -4.63631
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial in Wellington Square, Ayr, was designed by James Kennedy Hunter and constructed by H.H. Martyn & Co. of Cheltenham in 1924, with later additions. It features a stepped granite cenotaph with a square plan, centrally located in the gardens of Wellington Square. The memorial has steps leading up to all sides, tilted angle bronze plaques at the base, and bronze remembrance boards on the lower shaft. Above these, there is a ridged frieze, culminating in a tapering square apex.

Local climate

War Memorial, Wellington Square, Ayr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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