Auchenhard Tower is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1986. Tower.
Auchenhard Tower
- WRENN ID
- lone-corbel-grove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1986
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NS 995 630
- Coordinates
- 55.85039, -3.60657
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Auchenhard Tower is a castellated gothic circular tower built in the late 18th or early 19th century. It has three stages and features pointed openings and a crenellated parapet. The tower is constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings and band courses.
Local climate
Auchenhard Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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