Tower, Tower Hill, Gourock is a Grade B listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1971. Tower.
Tower, Tower Hill, Gourock
- WRENN ID
- winding-flint-cream
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Inverclyde
- Constituency
- Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1971
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NS 239 773
- Coordinates
- 55.95668, -4.82227
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a small circular tower dating from 1847, located on Tower Hill in Gourock. It is constructed from pink sandstone with stugged ashlar. The tower features three blocked openings and evidence of a former structure to the south. It has a base course and a corbelled parapet. To the west, there are two open-arched vaults built into the hillside.
Local climate
Tower, Tower Hill, Gourock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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