Alloa Tower is a Grade A listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1960. Tower. 3 related planning applications.

Alloa Tower

WRENN ID
white-flue-moss
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Clackmannanshire
Constituency
Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 June 1960
Type
Tower
Address
Alloa Tower, FK10 1PP
OS grid reference
NS 888 925
Coordinates
56.11244, -3.7883
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Alloa Tower is a building from the 15th century that has been altered in the 16th, 17th, and late 18th centuries. It stands four storeys high with an attic, constructed from coursed rubble measuring 62 feet 6 inches by 39 feet 6 inches, and reaches a height of 68 feet to the parapet walk. The tower features a stepped and crenellated parapet with corbelled rounds at the angles and at the center of the north wall. The doorpiece is arched and designed in the Ionic de l'Orme French order from the 19th century, likely replicating an earlier doorway, with bases that may date back to the 17th century. The tower has existed in its current form at least since 1861.

Local climate

Alloa Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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