Cluny Crichton Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972. Tower house.

Cluny Crichton Castle

WRENN ID
half-cellar-lake
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 August 1972
Type
Tower house
OS grid reference
NO 685 997
Coordinates
57.08805, -2.51995
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cluny Crichton Castle is a small three-storey tower house built in an L-plan shape, featuring a re-entrant turnpike. Above the door, there is an inset panel that reads "16 Clu(nie) 66 Crichto(un)e."

Local climate

Cluny Crichton Castle receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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