Blairuskin Sighting Pillar (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works) is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 2008. Sighting pillar.
Blairuskin Sighting Pillar (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works)
- WRENN ID
- muffled-balcony-quill
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 2008
- Type
- Sighting pillar
- OS grid reference
- NN 434 027
- Coordinates
- 56.19126, -4.52431
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Blairuskin Sighting Pillar, formerly part of the Glasgow Corporation Water Works, was designed by James M Gale around 1885. It features a slightly battered, square-plan structure topped with a pyramidal cap. The pillar stands on a deep, battered masonry base that includes low parapet walls and steps leading to the top. The construction consists of random schist rubble with sandstone quoins and steps.
Local climate
Blairuskin Sighting Pillar (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,730 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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