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
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Bridgeness Tower, The Tower Gardens, Bridgeness, Bo'Ness, EH51 9LS
- OS grid reference
- NT 013 814
- Coordinates
- 56.01595, -3.58463
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
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.
Local climate
Bridgeness Tower, The Tower Gardens, Bridgeness, Bo'Ness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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