Signal Tower, Fishtown Of Usan is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980.

Signal Tower, Fishtown Of Usan

WRENN ID
pitched-cobble-ebony
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 January 1980
OS grid reference
NO 724 545
Coordinates
56.68233, -2.45107
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, known as 8-21 Fishtown of Usan, dates back to the mid-19th century and consists of a single-storey row that originally housed 14 cottages, although it is now derelict. To the off-centre left, there is a four-stage lookout tower. The structure is built of rubble with raised ashlar margins, and some window openings feature timber lintels. The tower rises from a pitched roof gear shed, which is harled. Each face of the tower has round-arched bipartite windows at different stages above ground. The south elevation features an oculus at the fourth stage, and the tower is topped with a crenellated wallhead parapet that includes a billeted corbel course and red brick stacks at two corners.

Local climate

Signal Tower, Fishtown Of Usan 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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