Kilchrist Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Castle.

Kilchrist Castle

WRENN ID
eastward-outpost-gold
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
Castle
OS grid reference
NR 692 179
Coordinates
55.40103, -5.64678
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kilchrist Castle is an early 19th-century free-standing tower that stands three storeys high and features a corbelled parapet. It has a round angle-tower and is harled on the exterior. The castle includes a vaulted basement.

Local climate

Kilchrist Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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.

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