Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
Tower
- WRENN ID
- fallen-cloister-storm
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NS 756 119
- Coordinates
- 55.38572, -3.96514
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tower Farmhouse is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey farmhouse constructed of coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings. The symmetrical south elevation features three bays, with a corniced square central porch. Above the 12-pane sash window within the porch is a south-facing block pediment. Each of the remaining windows has a narrow cornice supported by two small brackets, and lying panes. Corniced end stacks rise from the piended slate roof. Lower ranges extend to the rear, including a small porch on the west wall. The interior has been completely modernised. A steading is not included as part of this listing. The statutory address is Tower Farmhouse.
Local climate
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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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