Barns Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Tower.
Barns Tower
- WRENN ID
- little-groin-peregrine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1971
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NT 215 391
- Coordinates
- 55.63939, -3.24832
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Barns Tower is a well-preserved structure located near Barns stables. It is designed as a rectangular keep, rising three cottages high with an attic. The ground floor features a vaulted ceiling. Although the building has undergone significant alterations, with modern roof and floors, the entrance doorway on the ground floor still has its grated iron yett. The date "1498" is carved into the lintel, although this inscription seems to be of more recent origin.
Local climate
Barns Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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