Blythe's Tower, Redwells Hill is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Tower.
Blythe's Tower, Redwells Hill
- WRENN ID
- woven-chalk-snow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1979
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NT 227 995
- Coordinates
- 56.18216, -3.24658
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Blythe's Tower, built in 1812, is a four-stage square tower that stands 52 feet high. It is constructed of random rubble with a base course and features ashlar dividing courses that mark the set-back stages. The tower retains remnants of a battlemented parapet and has a segmental-headed door with voussoirs.
On the west elevation, the first stage has a tall, narrow, segmental-arched door, while the second stage is blank. The third and fourth stages each have a window flanked by small openings. The south elevation features a blank first stage, two narrow openings in the second stage, and a window in the third and fourth stages. The east elevation has blank first and second stages, with a window and flanking small openings in the third and fourth stages. The north elevation also has a blank first stage, four narrow openings in the second stage, and a window in the third and fourth stages.
Local climate
Blythe's Tower, Redwells Hill receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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