Monument, Carmichael House is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971.
Monument, Carmichael House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-chamber-autumn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 933 394
- Coordinates
- 55.63675, -3.6965
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The monument comprises the base of an obelisk erected in 1774 to commemorate Lord Hyndford. It forms a group with numbers 52/2 to 52/5. The monument is situated within an interesting, symmetrical estate layout on Carmichael Hill.
Local climate
Monument, Carmichael House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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