Torwood Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 October 1979. Castle.
Torwood Castle
- WRENN ID
- frozen-corner-tallow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1979
- Type
- Castle
- OS grid reference
- NS 835 843
- Coordinates
- 56.03799, -3.86998
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Torwood Castle is a building from the 16th and 17th centuries, with its principal block dating back to 1566. It features a short wing that extends at right angles to the main structure. There is a small square tower located in the re-entrant angle of the building. To the north, there is a large courtyard.
Local climate
Torwood Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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