Ladhope Tower is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 May 1979. Stable, tower house. 1 related planning application.
Ladhope Tower
- WRENN ID
- secret-cobble-lake
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1979
- Type
- Stable, tower house
- OS grid reference
- NT 494 366
- Coordinates
- 55.62116, -2.80377
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ladhope Tower is an early to mid 19th century stable block with a gable-ended, rectangular plan. It incorporates a much-reduced fragment of a 16th century tower house on the west side. The building is single storey, featuring a gableted loft door that breaks the eaves on the north elevation. To the right, there are two-leaf timber doors leading to a large round-arch opening, which is likely from the early 20th century and possibly uses stone from the original tower house. Above this opening is a blank rectangular panel.
Adjoining to the west is a remnant of the tower, consisting of two 15-foot walls made of roughly coursed and pinned rubble, with signs of first-floor corbelling on the inner faces. The south elevation has a large two-leaf timber door and an additional single door to the left. The roof is covered with grey slate, and cast-iron rainwater goods are present.
Local climate
Ladhope Tower receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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