Italian Garden, Glamis Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 September 1998. Garden.
Italian Garden, Glamis Castle
- WRENN ID
- muffled-wall-evening
- 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 387 480
- Coordinates
- 56.62068, -2.99926
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Italian Garden at Glamis Castle, designed by Cecilia, Countess of Strathmore, in 1907, is a 2-acre formal garden featuring rusticated ashlar pavilions. These pavilions have droved ashlar chamfered arrises and basket-arched openings, along with a corbel course and timber-lined roofs. The garden includes a terrace with steps leading to a fan-shaped parterre, and there are two pleached beech alleys situated between formal beds and box-edged parterres.
On the southeast terrace, there is a stone seat flanked by pinnacles at the center, with square-plan pavilions on either side. Each pavilion has a pedestrian entrance to the northeast and southwest, and a window opening to the southeast. They feature a corbelled cornice and a pyramidal roof made of Angus stone slate topped with a decorative stone finial. The northeast pavilion has a commemorative stone dated 1910. The flat-coped rubble terrace wall includes wide steps at the center and northeast, flanked by small piers with urn finials.
The garden also features a fountain with semicircular-coped ashlar boundaries and a blue mosaic stone basin. The carved fountain has a square-plan base and a pulvinated plinth that transitions to a pulvinated frieze with lion-head spouts on each face, and a moulded cornice supporting a statue of a putto with a dolphin above a mask spout.
Additionally, there is a decorative wrought-iron gate to the northeast.
Local climate
Italian 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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