Tower Folly, Boquhan is a Grade C listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 2011. Tower folly.

Tower Folly, Boquhan

WRENN ID
pitched-solder-grove
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 November 2011
Type
Tower folly
OS grid reference
NS 668 950
Coordinates
56.12979, -4.14425
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Tower Folly in Boquhan is a tower folly dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. It features a two-stage, octagonal plan and is set on a stepped octagonal base. The structure is built from coursed red sandstone with pale sandstone ashlar dressings. It has a moulded cornice at the first floor, a band-course below a further cornice at the eaves level, and a blocking course above. The doorway is adorned with a moulded cornice and a blank moulded panel above it. There are windows on the front and side elevations at the upper stage, although the side windows are currently blocked as of 2011. Inside, there is evidence of turnpike stair construction. The tower is currently roofless.

Local climate

Tower Folly, Boquhan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 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 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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