Gagie Well Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 December 1991. Well. 1 related planning application.
Gagie Well Tower
- WRENN ID
- final-cupola-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1991
- Type
- Well
- Address
- Gagie Well Tower, DD5 3PP
- OS grid reference
- NO 455 372
- Coordinates
- 56.5238, -2.88683
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gagie Well Tower is a substantial circular-plan well tower built in 1848 by engineer James Leslie. It was rebuilt and extended to include filter beds and a boundary wall by engineer George Baxter in 1906-1907, with architectural details provided by his brother David Baxter.
The well, dating from 1848 and rebuilt in 1906, is a single-storey structure featuring a circular-plan wellhead with a projecting entrance porch. It is constructed from lightly stugged sandstone courses and topped with a grey slate roof. The tower has a moulded base course, two multi-pane timber-framed top-hopper windows, and a massive corbelled and crenellated parapet. The entrance porch includes a plain boarded door with chamfered margins and a blank oculus above, set in a crowstepped gable with bracketted skewputts. On either side of the porch, there are bipartite sash and case windows with chamfered stone mullions and margins.
The filter beds, added in 1906, consist of three large rectangular-plan structures built from red and grey brick, with a narrow gauge railway line running alongside.
The gatepier and boundary wall, constructed in 1907, feature a pyramidal-capped, bull-faced ashlar gatepier with a round-coped ashlar wall adjoining it, along with a further similar pier and a rubble boundary wall.
Local climate
Gagie Well Tower receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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