The Tower is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 May 1990. Tower. 1 related planning application.
The Tower
- WRENN ID
- plain-span-linden
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1990
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NX 826 495
- Coordinates
- 54.82724, -3.82789
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tower is a three-storey ornamental structure built in the later 19th century, featuring symmetrical design. It has two-storey additions to the south from the 20th century. The walls are rendered, complemented by rock-faced and broached rusticated quoins, and polished sandstone margins. The ground floor has single light windows, the first floor has tripartite windows, and the second floor features bipartite windows, mostly fitted with plate glass sashes. The tower is topped with a corbelled, machicolated wall-walk and an embattled parapet.
Local climate
The Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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