Waterloo Tower is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971.
Waterloo Tower
- WRENN ID
- young-rubblework-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 125 677
- Coordinates
- 55.89455, -3.39954
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Waterloo Tower is a Gothick tower, likely dating to 1815. It is constructed of snecked rubble with dressed face-work and corner stones. The tower is two storeys high and features pointed latticed windows.
Local climate
Waterloo Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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