Clermiston Tower, Corstorphine Hill, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tower.
Clermiston Tower, Corstorphine Hill, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- slow-lancet-martin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NT 206 738
- Coordinates
- 55.951, -3.27236
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Clermiston Tower is a 5-stage, square plan, crenellated tower built in 1871 for William Macfie. It features a turret and is constructed from rubble sandstone with bull-faced dressings. The tower has angle buttresses, dividing band courses, quoins, long and short surrounds to openings, corbelled battlements, and moulded eaves.
On the west elevation, there is an inscription above a panelled cast-iron door at the ground level, with a single rectangular opening aligned above for each stage. The north, east, and south elevations are similar, but include a single round arch that has been blocked at the ground level.
Inside, there is a spiral iron staircase consisting of 100 steps.
Local climate
Clermiston Tower, Corstorphine Hill, Edinburgh receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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