Folly, Minard Castle Wood is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 2007. Folly.
Folly, Minard Castle Wood
- WRENN ID
- still-finial-twilight
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 February 2007
- Type
- Folly
- OS grid reference
- NR 968 942
- Coordinates
- 56.09762, -5.26779
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a roofless Gothic folly, likely built in the early 19th century, featuring a square plan and two stages. It has central pointed arched openings on three sides: the north, south, and east elevations, each adorned with flanking Greek cross details. There is a small forestair on the west elevation. The structure is made of rubble with render and has raised margins.
Local climate
Folly, Minard Castle Wood sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,810 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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.
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