Marian Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Monument.
Marian Tower
- WRENN ID
- final-groin-river
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NW 995 688
- Coordinates
- 54.97385, -5.13359
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Marian Tower is a circular monument built in 1808. It is made of rendered rubble with a rough rubble base. The tower has a circular base and features sandstone coping. At the top, there is an ashlar band course that encircles the tower and an ogee-capped design. The base of the finial is made of ashlar and was formerly topped with a ball finial. On the south side, there is a sandstone panel inscribed with "Marian Hill 1808."
Local climate
Marian Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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