Mearns Castle, Waterfoot Road, Newton Mearns is a Grade A listed building in the East Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1971. Tower house.
Mearns Castle, Waterfoot Road, Newton Mearns
- WRENN ID
- old-balcony-grove
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- East Renfrewshire MP: Blair McDougall (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1971
- Type
- Tower house
- OS grid reference
- NS 552 553
- Coordinates
- 55.7698, -4.30961
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mearns Castle is a mid-15th century tower house measuring approximately 30 feet by 44 feet and standing about 40 feet high. It features an embattled parapet on a corbelled wallhead and has a concrete roof.
Local climate
Mearns Castle, Waterfoot Road, Newton Mearns sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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