Statue, West Town is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 December 1993. Statue.
Statue, West Town
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-brick-dust
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1993
- Type
- Statue
- OS grid reference
- NS 828 337
- Coordinates
- 55.5837, -3.86085
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The statue located in West Town was created around 1815 by Robert Forrest for Colonel Robertson of Hallcraig. It is a stone sculpture, approximately life-sized, depicting a Highland chief, and stands on a tapering stone plinth with a moulded coping. An inscription on the plinth states, "This statue was erected at Hallcraig Lanarkshire year 16.11 L/ght Col Alexander. Removed from hence to Ayrshire on 10th of May and placed here on the 8th June 1861." The statue was moved from an unknown location to West Town on 16th October 1929 by Arthur W. Robertson Cunninghame, the great-granddaughter of Alfreda M. Greenshields.
Local climate
Statue, West Town sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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