Tillycairn Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Castle.
Tillycairn Castle
- WRENN ID
- muted-eave-yew
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Castle
- OS grid reference
- NJ 664 114
- Coordinates
- 57.19239, -2.55623
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tillycairn Castle, built around 1550 for Matthew Lumsden, is a four-storey building in an L-plan layout with rounded angles. It features a circular stair tower in the re-entrant angle and angle turrets. The structure is made of boulder rubble with pinnings and has bold corbelling at the top. The ground floor and first floor are vaulted in the jamb. The castle was already in ruins by 1722 and is now roofless but remains fairly complete otherwise.
Local climate
Tillycairn Castle receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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