Kirkhope Tower is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1971. 1 related planning application.
Kirkhope Tower
- WRENN ID
- tenth-footing-dale
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1971
- Address
- Kirkhope Tower, TD7 5JW
- OS grid reference
- NT 378 250
- Coordinates
- 55.51526, -2.98542
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirkhope Tower is a tower house, likely dating from the 16th century. It was restored for residential use in 1997. The tower was formerly a Scheduled Monument and is now accompanied by a Scheduled Area, redefined on 3rd March 1999. Further details and plans can be found in Historic Environment Scotland records, specifically Inv pp 54-6 No 32, plans fig 17, and Plate XVI fig 48.
Local climate
Kirkhope Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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