Lochhouse Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. 1 related planning application.
Lochhouse Tower
- WRENN ID
- sunken-pediment-curlew
- 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
- Address
- Lochhouse Tower, DG10 9SF
- OS grid reference
- NT 081 033
- Coordinates
- 55.31571, -3.44858
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A 16th-century tower house, Lochhouse Tower, was restored and re-roofed around 1973. The tower is rectangular in plan and stands three storeys high with an attic. It features an off-set plinth and an upper floor set back from the lower levels. The exterior is built of rubble, with rounded corners. There are wide-mouthed gun ports in the walls, a moulded doorway at the north end of the east wall and vertically-arranged windows. Corbels remain from a demolished parapet, and the slated roof incorporates rebuilt skews and end stacks. A blocked doorway exists in the south wall.
The ground floor is vaulted, with a chamber built within the wall thickness alongside the doorway. A wheel stair is located in the northeast angle. The building is documented in the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHM) inventory of 1920, reference number 388.
Local climate
Lochhouse Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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- 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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