Craignish Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Castle.
Craignish Castle
- WRENN ID
- pale-tracery-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
- NM 771 016
- Coordinates
- 56.15515, -5.5896
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Craignish Castle is a 16th-century keep that is square in shape and has three storeys. The exterior is harled with a piended slate roof, featuring a corbelled parapet and angle turrets. An iron yett serves as the entrance. The interior has been modernised, with a vaulted ground floor and a dungeon below that has been cut out of rock. A turnpike stair provides access between the levels.
To the north, there is an addition from around 1835, which was originally a long wing but has since been reduced. This section has two storeys and an attic, with a gabled roof and a gabled dormer. A moulded string-course runs along the building, and there is a gablet above the entrance. To the east, there is a rubble rampart.
Local climate
Craignish Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,140 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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