Otterston Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Tower.
Otterston Castle
- WRENN ID
- ragged-plinth-falcon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NT 165 852
- Coordinates
- 56.05308, -3.34203
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Otterston Castle is a small circular tower that remains from the original structure of Otterstone Castle, which dates from the 16th to 17th centuries and had 19th-century additions. The castle was demolished in 1946. The tower is built of rubble and features a corbelled crenellated parapet.
Local climate
Otterston Castle receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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