Custodians House, Edzell Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Custodian's house.

Custodians House, Edzell Castle

WRENN ID
crumbling-obsidian-wind
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 June 1971
Type
Custodian's house
OS grid reference
NO 585 691
Coordinates
56.81191, -2.67988
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Custodians House at Edzell Castle is an L-plan building dating from 1901. It is a single storey with an attic, constructed from snecked rubble and features crow-stepped gables with stone slates. There is an angle turret at the eastern corner, and the design includes early 17th century patterns that match those of the garden house.

Local climate

Custodians House, Edzell Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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