Saddell Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Castle. 4 related planning applications.
Saddell Castle
- WRENN ID
- peeling-vestry-barley
- Grade
- A
- 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
- Address
- Saddell Castle, PA28 6QS
- OS grid reference
- NR 789 315
- Coordinates
- 55.52742, -5.50459
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Saddell Castle, dated 1508, was restored between 1650 and 1652 and again in the 1890s. This oblong building stands four storeys tall and is harled with a gabled slate roof featuring crowsteps. It has a crenellated and corbelled parapet, angle-turrets, and a cape-house. The doorway is adorned with rope-moulding and has an inset above displaying the date '1508', along with an inset of the Galley of Lorne. The interior was refitted around 1650, featuring a turnpike stair, a barrel-vaulted ground floor, a kitchen and hall on the first floor, and small apartments on the upper floors.
The outbuildings are of various types, constructed of rubble and currently roofless, mainly dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The curtain walls are also harled and include a round archway, one of which has an inset displaying the date MDCCCXCV, along with a belfry above.
Local climate
Saddell Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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
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