Raith Tower, Comrie Hill, Raith Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979.
Raith Tower, Comrie Hill, Raith Estate
- WRENN ID
- distant-doorway-swallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1979
- OS grid reference
- NT 249 918
- Coordinates
- 56.11375, -3.20836
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Raith Tower is an early 19th-century lookout tower situated on Comrie Hill within the Raith Estate. The tower is square in plan and three stories high, featuring an internal staircase, a crenellated parapet, and round angle turrets. It is constructed of harled brick. The ground floor is vaulted with pointed arches and contains a turnpike staircase. The tower was used as a private museum until the 1970s and is now derelict. Historical finds on Comrie Hill, including several stone coffins, urns, and human bones, suggest the hill may have once been a military station.
Local climate
Raith Tower, Comrie Hill, Raith Estate receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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