Game Larder, Glamis Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 September 1998. Game larder.
Game Larder, Glamis Castle
- WRENN ID
- sheer-mantel-gilt
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1998
- Type
- Game larder
- OS grid reference
- NO 386 481
- Coordinates
- 56.62092, -3.00075
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Game Larder at Glamis Castle is a mid to late 19th-century structure, originally likely converted from a dovecot. It features a double chamber and a rectangular plan, constructed from bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings. The building has stepped and moulded string courses, crowstepped flanks, and a dormer gablehead with moulded skewputts. The stone mullions and chamfered arrises add to its architectural detail.
On the northeast elevation, there are two windows beneath a moulded string course, leading to a small louvered bipartite opening below a dripstone in the dormer gablehead. The southwest elevation has a boarded timber door situated to the right of centre, with a window to the left and a small louvered bipartite opening above in the centre. The northwest elevation features a boarded timber section at ground level, topped with a stepped string course and alighting ledge. The southeast elevation includes a window at ground level, also with a stepped string course and alighting ledge above.
The timber windows are adorned with diamond-pattern glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slate.
Local climate
Game Larder, 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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