Dutch Garden, Glamis Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 September 1998. Garden.
Dutch Garden, Glamis Castle
- WRENN ID
- burning-newel-burdock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1998
- Type
- Garden
- OS grid reference
- NO 386 480
- Coordinates
- 56.62014, -3.00166
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dutch Garden at Glamis Castle, built in 1893, is a formal garden featuring box hedge parterres and a central fountain adorned with a bronze statue of Mercury on a circular stone pedestal, which has water spouts. To the west, there is a boundary wall with segmental pediments, square-plan gatepiers topped with orb finials, and decorative wrought-iron gates. The enclosure walls are low, corniced, and flat-coped, also featuring square-plan piers with orb finials. To the east, there is a high boundary wall that includes a segmentally-pedimented pedestrian gateway.
Local climate
Dutch Garden, Glamis Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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