Bridgeness Tower, The Tower Gardens, Bridgeness, Bo'Ness is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. Tower. 1 related planning application.

Bridgeness Tower, The Tower Gardens, Bridgeness, Bo'Ness

WRENN ID
sombre-buttress-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Falkirk
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 November 1980
Type
Tower
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Bridgeness Tower, dated 1750, is a four-stage circular tower with a basement, located in The Tower Gardens, Bridgeness, Bo'Ness. It features an attached circular stair-tower and a two-storey wing with a pitched roof covered in pantiles to the south. Originally a windmill, the building has undergone later alterations and is now converted into a house. The exterior is harled with mostly painted margins, a base course, and a brick battlemented and corbelled top storey that includes arrow slits, designed by Hippolyte Blanc in 1895.

The windows are timber sash and case, mainly with 12 panes. There is a blind window on the eastern ground level with an unpainted margin and a marriage lintel dated 1750, which is now badly weathered.

Inside, the pantiled wing to the south has a barrel-vaulted ceiling at ground level, while the tower's interior has been extensively modernised.

The property is enclosed by a high sandstone rubble boundary wall with flat coping and a plaque on the eastern side.

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