Memorial Drinking Basin, Craig Gowan, Easter Balmoral is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Drinking basin.

Memorial Drinking Basin, Craig Gowan, Easter Balmoral

WRENN ID
watchful-rood-larch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 2010
Type
Drinking basin
OS grid reference
NO 262 939
Coordinates
57.03069, -3.21719
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Memorial Drinking Basin at Craig Gowan in Easter Balmoral was built in 1880. It is a free-standing structure made of granite, featuring a pointed-arch niche with a roll-moulded arch and a string course. The basin has an inscribed frieze and scrolled ornament at the top, which shelters an ogival basin that has a rope-moulding around its rim.

Local climate

Memorial Drinking Basin, Craig Gowan, Easter Balmoral sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 88 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 68 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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