The Tower, 18 and 20 Castlefield Court, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 1977. Tower house.
The Tower, 18 and 20 Castlefield Court, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- spare-outpost-gilt
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1977
- Type
- Tower house
- OS grid reference
- NS 645 678
- Coordinates
- 55.88425, -4.16657
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tower at 18 and 20 Castlefield Court in Glasgow is likely a mid-19th century crow-stepped dummy tower house. It has two storeys with an attic and features a three-bay south front. To the right, there is a bolection-moulded doorway, and the windows are regularly positioned, featuring modern timber pivot windows that replicate the original glazing pattern of six-pane lower sashes and four-pane upper sashes, all with chamfers. The main corners of the building are rounded and corbelled to a square at the attic storey. Each long wall has a central crow-stepped wall-head dormer, with a coped end stack on the west side and a ball finial on the east. The structure is built from rubble with ashlar margins and has a slate roof.
At the rear, a two-storey, brick-built, rendered extension has been added to create one ground floor flat and one maisonette. This extension replaces a low rear wing and low ranges of outbuildings, some of which were crow-stepped, that were demolished during housing development.
Local climate
The Tower, 18 and 20 Castlefield Court, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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