Keith's Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972. Tower.
Keith's Tower
- WRENN ID
- winding-loggia-hyssop
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1972
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NO 797 981
- Coordinates
- 57.07395, -2.33503
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Keith's Tower is an octagonal Gothic tower made of ashlar stone, standing approximately 50 feet high. It features a battlemented parapet and is surrounded by a roundel of pine trees. The tower was built by the Duke of Gordon to commemorate the victory in a lawsuit in 1825, which is also the date inscribed on the structure.
Local climate
Keith's Tower receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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