West 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.
West Tower, Islay House, Islay
- WRENN ID
- low-loggia-bone
- 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 321 627
- Coordinates
- 55.784, -6.27322
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The West Tower at Islay House is an 18th-century Gothick folly. It is small and square in shape. The tower features a rubble crenellated parapet and blind pointed arches on two sides, with oculi above them. There is a round-headed doorway on the north side and a built-up slit window on the south side. The floor is grass-grown, and there are traces of an upper floor.
Local climate
West 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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