Tower House, Ayr Street, Moniaive is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. 1 related planning application.
Tower House, Ayr Street, Moniaive
- WRENN ID
- kindled-paling-heron
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- OS grid reference
- NX 778 909
- Coordinates
- 55.19761, -3.92133
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a mid-to-late 19th century house featuring a square clock tower above the entrance. The house is constructed of whin rubble with contrasting painted long and short worked dressings and stop-chamfered margins. The tower has four stages; the third stage has louvered bipartite windows on each face, and the top stage features a clock on each face. The tower is topped with a slated, short facetted spire, with lucarnes near the base, and a weathervane finial.
The east elevation has three bays; the tower sits centrally, while the remaining bays are advanced to the left and recessed to the right, both with gables. Most windows are bipartite with sashes and a 6-pane glazing pattern. End stacks are positioned on projecting chimney breasts, and the roof is slate-covered.
The property was not depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1856.
Local climate
Tower House, Ayr Street, Moniaive sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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