Tower, Strathmartine Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 December 1991. Tower.
Tower, Strathmartine Castle
- WRENN ID
- pale-moat-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1991
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NO 371 363
- Coordinates
- 56.51519, -3.0234
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Strathmartine Castle features a mid-18th century, two-storey tower with a square plan and classical detailing. The structure is made of pink rubble sandstone, accented with large irregular re-used quoins, some of which are tooled and moulded, and shows traces of harling. It has a cavetto moulded wallhead course, and although it originally had a pyramidal slate roof, this has collapsed and been replaced with a flat corrugated metal roof.
On the southeast elevation, there is a full-width segmental arch with irregular voussoirs and rubble infill, featuring a margined door at the center. Above this, at the first floor, is a tall round-headed unglazed window with slightly raised margins. The east elevation has a blocked door on the right and an arrow slit ventilator at the first floor. The west elevation also features an arrow slit ventilator at the first floor. The north elevation includes a full-width segmental arch with regular ashlar voussoirs and rubble infill, with a margined door on the left. There is a circular margined window, which is blinded, at the first floor.
Inside, the floor has collapsed, but there is a fireplace located in the southwest angle at the first floor.
Local climate
Tower, Strathmartine Castle receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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