Burns Monument, Failford is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Monument.
Burns Monument, Failford
- WRENN ID
- outer-frieze-crow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NS 458 261
- Coordinates
- 55.50468, -4.44219
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Burns Monument in Failford is marked by a square column topped with a finial and resting on a simple base. This monument commemorates the last farewell between Robert Burns and Highland Mary, which took place on May 14, 1786.
Local climate
Burns Monument, Failford sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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