Former Head Forester's House, 6 Kirkwynd, Glamis is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. House.
Former Head Forester's House, 6 Kirkwynd, Glamis
- WRENN ID
- dark-trefoil-raven
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NO 385 467
- Coordinates
- 56.60894, -3.00345
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Former Head Forester's House, located at 6 Kirkwynd in Glamis, is a plain two-storey, three-bay house with a single-storey wing, rebuilt in the 19th century. The structure is made of coursed rubble.
On the southeast elevation, there is a part-glazed timber door in the center of the ground floor, flanked by windows in the outer bays, and the first floor features regular fenestration. A window is present in the single-storey bay on the outer left.
The northwest elevation has its ground floor obscured by a boundary wall, with a small window located in the center of the first floor.
The northeast elevation is gabled and includes a window on the outer right at ground level. The windows are timber sash and case with a four-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with polygonal cans.
The property is enclosed by rubble boundary walls.
Local climate
Former Head Forester's House, 6 Kirkwynd, Glamis 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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