Statue Of Florentine Boar, Balmoral Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Statue.
Statue Of Florentine Boar, Balmoral Castle
- WRENN ID
- stark-footing-aspen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 2010
- Type
- Statue
- OS grid reference
- NO 254 949
- Coordinates
- 57.0397, -3.2309
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Statue of the Florentine Boar at Balmoral Castle was created around 1855 and painted in 1929. This life-size bronze statue depicts a wild boar seated on its haunches, inspired by a similar statue located in Florence, possibly at the Palazzo Signoria. The statue is positioned near a copse to the south of the castle.
Local climate
Statue Of Florentine Boar, Balmoral Castle 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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