Obelisk, Blairdrummond Park, Blair Drummond House is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Obelisk, Blairdrummond Park, Blair Drummond House
- WRENN ID
- spare-courtyard-rowan
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 724 986
- Coordinates
- 56.16358, -4.05496
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a rubble-built obelisk located within Blair Drummond Park, near Blair Drummond House. It was erected between 1766 and 1782 by Lord Kames. The obelisk is of squat proportions and features an inscription reading: “BY HENRY HOME/FOR HIS NEIGHBOURS AS WELL AS FOR HIMSELF/ WAS/ THIS OBELISK ERECTED. GRAFT BENEVOLENCE ON SELF LOVE/THE FRUIT/WILL BE DELICIOUS.” The obelisk’s design is thought to have been influenced by a sketch by Robert Adam. Although no design plan exists within the Home Drummond manuscripts at Register House, there is a sketch design for a new house within those papers.
Local climate
Obelisk, Blairdrummond Park, Blair Drummond House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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