Uig Tower, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Tower.
Uig Tower, Skye
- WRENN ID
- veiled-iron-furze
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NG 395 633
- Coordinates
- 57.58477, -6.35917
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Uig Tower is a roofless round tower built around 1850. It is constructed of rubble with tooled dressings. The southeast side features a segmental headed doorway with a window above it, and there is a corresponding window on the northwest side. A string course runs just below the top of the wall. The tower has blind cruciform vents and a slight batter, with an approximate circumference of 100 feet.
Local climate
Uig Tower, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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