Castleknowe, Lynturk Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
Castleknowe, Lynturk Castle
- WRENN ID
- silver-corridor-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 597 123
- Coordinates
- 57.19999, -2.66839
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castleknowe, also known as Lynturk Castle, is a two-story, three-window house. The exterior is harled, and the roof is piended. A single-story wing extends from the rear of the main house, situated within an approximately circular fosse. The building is plain in architectural style and currently in a state of disrepair. Records suggest the ruins of an earlier castle, likely dating to the 16th century, remain on site. The current house was likely built around 1816 or shortly thereafter, probably by Peter McCombie. A gunloop is present in the steading at Lynturk.
Local climate
Castleknowe, Lynturk Castle receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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