Blair Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Look-out tower.
Blair Tower
- WRENN ID
- crooked-oriel-dock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Look-out tower
- OS grid reference
- NT 030 895
- Coordinates
- 56.08921, -3.55947
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Blair Tower is a three-storey lookout tower built in a circular shape, constructed from rubble and featuring battlements. The interior has been gutted, and it has round-headed doors and windows that date from the 19th century.
Local climate
Blair Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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