Robgill Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Mansion.
Robgill Tower
- WRENN ID
- empty-sill-rush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Mansion
- OS grid reference
- NY 247 716
- Coordinates
- 55.03354, -3.1782
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Robgill Tower is a medium-scale mansion with several building phases, primarily from the late 18th to early 19th century, with its core originating from a 16th-century tower. It is dramatically situated above a steep cliff and features a high buttressed and crenellated retaining wall. The building mainly consists of three storeys and is constructed of rubble with red ashlar dressings.
The tower is located at the north end and includes a vaulted basement. The upper walling has been rebuilt and altered around 1870. The building was more than doubled in width by a late 18th or early 19th-century range to the south, which has a full-height east-facing bow that overlooks the cliff and three regular bays to the south. There is a square linking bay at the east that is carried a storey higher.
An extension to the west was made around 1840, featuring a north-south oriented range with some mullioned windows and others with lying-panes. The entrance tower is crenellated and off-centre, with steps leading to the door and a corbelled oriel. The building has end and axial stacks, blocked eaves, and slate roofs that curve over the bow.
Local climate
Robgill Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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