This data set includes all the source data corresponding to the each figure published in the paper entitled “Fibrillar adhesion dynamics govern the timescales of nuclear mechano-response via the vimentin cytoskeleton”. These data demonstrate that the formation of fibrillar adhesions and remodelling of the extracellular matrix protein fibronectin, delays the timescales at which the cell nucleus responds to changes in the mechanical environment. Mechanistically, this is mediated by the anchoring of the vimentin cytoskeleton to fibrillar adhesions by plectin-1f.