Tower, House Of The Binns is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. 1 related planning application.

Tower, House Of The Binns

WRENN ID
silver-passage-smoke
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1971
Address
Tower, House Of The Binns, EH49 7NA
OS grid reference
NT 052 785
Coordinates
55.99095, -3.52039
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Binns Tower, located on Binns Hill, was built in 1826. It is a circular structure constructed of rubble and features a crenellated parapet. The tower was built by Sir James Dalyell, 5th Baronet, as a result of a wager. Information about the tower's construction can be found in ‘The Binns Papers’ from 1938.

Local climate

Tower, House Of The Binns receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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