Balwearie Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Tower.
Balwearie Tower
- WRENN ID
- first-barrel-sable
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1998
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 902
- Coordinates
- 56.09894, -3.18652
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balwearie Tower is an early 19th-century two-stage folly constructed from rubble, with a gable end that adjoins a two-storey cottage. The tower features an ashlar dividing course and projecting rubble margins, along with pointed arch openings.
On the northeast elevation, the first stage has a large pointed-arch recess at the ground level that contains a memorial tablet, with a narrow window positioned high to the right. The second stage includes a brick-traceried window below a quatrefoil opening, and there are three small square nesting boxes to the left.
At the rear of the tower, the cottage has a door on the east side, flanked by windows, and a harled extension to the west.
Local climate
Balwearie Tower 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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