Tower, Penicuik House is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Tower.
Tower, Penicuik House
- WRENN ID
- carved-transept-rain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NT 219 596
- Coordinates
- 55.82383, -3.24665
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tower at Penicuik House was built between 1748 and 1751. It is a circular structure with three storeys, constructed from coursed rubble and featuring a machicolated parapet. The porch has an inscription above the inner door. Inside, there is an unusual layout with an inner tower surrounded by narrow passages. The first storey includes a doocot, which has 1,356 nest-holes, and there is a turnpike stair.
Local climate
Tower, Penicuik House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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