Gilnockie Tower is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Tower house. 3 related planning applications.
Gilnockie Tower
- WRENN ID
- ghost-chalk-oak
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Tower house
- OS grid reference
- NY 382 785
- Coordinates
- 55.09779, -2.96961
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gilnockie Tower is a 16th century tower house that has been sympathetically restored for domestic use between 1979 and 1980, with W G Dawson as the architect. The exterior features roughly coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and it has rectangular or slit openings, mostly roll-moulded, with some featuring relieving arches. There is a door located at the south end of the west wall and a central gun port at ground level. The tower has small-paned windows, a splayed base course, and a continuous corbel table with cable moulding that curves over the angles, along with rope-moulding raised at intervals, although some upper stonework has been removed. The gables are crow-stepped, and there is a corbelled apex beacon platform at the south end, with a corniced end stack at the north. The roof is covered with slate.
Inside, the lower level is vaulted, with prehistoric stone visible in the floor near the door. There is a circular stair located within the southwest angle.
Local climate
Gilnockie Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 — 3 applications
- 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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