East Tower, Islay House, Islay is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Folly.

East Tower, Islay House, Islay

WRENN ID
moated-bastion-ebony
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1971
Type
Folly
OS grid reference
NR 335 624
Coordinates
55.78195, -6.25164
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The East Tower at Islay House is an early 19th-century folly. It is octagonal in shape and features coursed stone with decorative banding. The tower has a corbelled crenellated parapet and unglazed slit windows. A string course runs around the structure, and there is a decorative doorhead with two shields that bear monograms. Inside, the tower has a circular layout with a domed ceiling beneath a platform roof. It formerly contained a turnpike stair.

Local climate

East Tower, Islay House, Islay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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