Chinese Lakes Including Bridges, Castle Toward is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Reservoir.

Chinese Lakes Including Bridges, Castle Toward

WRENN ID
noble-landing-meadow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1971
Type
Reservoir
OS grid reference
NS 117 689
Coordinates
55.87716, -5.01039
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Chinese Lakes, including bridges, were created around 1930 and consist of a pair of man-made, crescent-shaped reservoir ponds that are lined with stone and designed in a picturesque style. Each pond features its own island. The southern pond is accompanied by a pair of ornamental pedestrian bridges with round arches, as well as a stone-lined area for boat mooring. The arches of the bridges are constructed from shuttered concrete and are finished with grey schist stone steps and rubble voussoirs.

Local climate

Chinese Lakes Including Bridges, Castle Toward sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,740 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

See all similar buildings →

this building   1 similar   nearby listed buildings

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Walled Garden To North, Castle Toward Grade B 644 m
  2. Workshop Range, Castle Toward Grade B 700 m
  3. Walled Garden To East, Castle Toward Grade B 848 m
  4. Castle Toward Residential School Grade B 855 m
  5. Gatehouse (Court Of Offices) And Garage, Castle Toward Grade B 1.3 km
  6. Toward Quay Grade B 1.4 km
  7. Knockdow House Grade B 2.1 km
  8. Toward Point Lighthouse, Toward Point Grade B 2.5 km
  9. 60 Mountstuart Road, Rothesay, Bute Grade B 3.8 km
  10. 58 Mountstuart Road, Rothesay, Bute Grade B 3.8 km