Tower Of Deskford is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House.

Tower Of Deskford

WRENN ID
standing-cobble-primrose
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
House
OS grid reference
NJ 508 616
Coordinates
57.6423, -2.82448
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Tower of Deskford is likely an early 18th century building that may include earlier elements. It is a two-storey, west-facing house with five bays and a regular arrangement of four windows. The entrance door is off-centre in the penultimate bay from the south. The small windows have chamfered margins but are currently covered with harling. The rear of the building has irregular window placements and an off-centre entrance that is obscured by a modern lean-to porch. The windows feature four-pane glazing, and the house has end and ridge stacks along with a slate roof.

Local climate

Tower Of Deskford sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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