Garden House And Remains Of Garden Wall, Barra Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Garden house.
Garden House And Remains Of Garden Wall, Barra Castle
- WRENN ID
- steep-timber-jet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Garden house
- OS grid reference
- NJ 791 257
- Coordinates
- 57.32173, -2.34791
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Garden House at Barra Castle likely dates from around 1753, although it may include some older elements. It is a two-storey garden house built from coursed boulder rubble and has a square plan. This structure is one of two that have survived. There is a forestair leading to the first-floor room, which features a chimneypiece with a keystone. The garden wall is largely in ruins.
Local climate
Garden House And Remains Of Garden Wall, Barra Castle receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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