Douglas Castle is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Castle.
Douglas Castle
- WRENN ID
- secret-plinth-onyx
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- Type
- Castle
- OS grid reference
- NS 842 318
- Coordinates
- 55.56645, -3.83717
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Douglas Castle is a probably 17th-century ruined three-stage round tower, open at the south. It is the original north tower of Douglas Castle, which was burned in 1758, and is now the only surviving fragment. The tower is constructed of snecked stugged ashlar. Each stage features altered large rectangular openings, some of which are blocked. The stages are divided by band courses and capped by a cornice. There is rough masonry where the tower was originally attached to the castle.
Local climate
Douglas Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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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