Lookout Tower, Ravenscraig Park is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Lookout tower.
Lookout Tower, Ravenscraig Park
- WRENN ID
- pale-lancet-hazel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1998
- Type
- Lookout tower
- OS grid reference
- NT 294 923
- Coordinates
- 56.11891, -3.1361
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lookout Tower at Ravenscraig Park is an early 19th-century structure. It is a small, circular tower with a conical roof, located next to rubble-coped sea-defence walls at a sharp angle above the shoreline. The tower is built from squared rubble with ashlar margins and features a stone slab roof. There is a round-headed doorway on the north side, and large gunloops are present on the south, east, and west sides.
Local climate
Lookout Tower, Ravenscraig Park 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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