The Tower, North Esk Road, Montrose is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Water tower. 3 related planning applications.
The Tower, North Esk Road, Montrose
- WRENN ID
- stranded-landing-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- The Tower, North Esk Road, Montrose, DD10 8TB
- OS grid reference
- NO 715 588
- Coordinates
- 56.72035, -2.46611
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tower on North Esk Road in Montrose is a three-storey, octagonal former water tower designed by William Middleton in 1841. It features Tudor gothic detailing, including a parapet with corner pinnacles and gablets on alternate sides. The front is constructed of sandstone ashlar, while the rear is made of squared and snecked stone. There is a band course above the ground, first, and second floors, with deeply chamfered margins and battered cills.
On the west elevation, the ground floor is rusticated with an entrance, and there are windows on the first and second floors that have stepped heads and hoodmoulds. The flanking sides also have plain windows on the first and second floors. The south elevation mirrors the west elevation.
The east elevation has small plain windows on the first and second floors, while the side facing northeast is blank. The north elevation is blank at the ground and first floors, but features a stone-mullioned tripartite window with a stepped head at the second floor.
The building has metal-framed casement windows, and the roof is not visible. The interior has been converted into a domestic dwelling.
Local climate
The Tower, North Esk Road, Montrose receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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