Windmill Tower, Glenugie Distillery, Peterhead is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Windmill tower.

Windmill Tower, Glenugie Distillery, Peterhead

WRENN ID
gentle-bronze-swallow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
Windmill tower
OS grid reference
NK 123 441
Coordinates
57.48782, -1.79556
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Windmill Tower at Glenugie Distillery in Peterhead is likely an 18th-century structure with a circular base measuring approximately 17 feet in diameter. It is constructed from pinned coursed granite rubble and tapers as it rises. There are putlog holes located about two-thirds of the way up the tower. The interior has been gutted.

Local climate

Windmill Tower, Glenugie Distillery, Peterhead receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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