Kilmory Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Castle. 5 related planning applications.
Kilmory Castle
- WRENN ID
- fading-baluster-sunrise
- 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
- Address
- Kilmory Castle, PA31 8RT
- OS grid reference
- NR 868 867
- Coordinates
- 56.02592, -5.4216
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kilmory Castle is a 19th-century castellated building. The central block dates to around 1820 and incorporates parts of an earlier castle. It has three storeys, constructed from rubble with gabled slate roofs and gablets.
The front block, built around 1830, features two storeys and is made of blue flagstone, with some areas harled. It has a corbelled and crenellated parapet and a gabled slate roof at the back. There are three three-storey towers: the central tower has an ogee arch and a mock portcullis that provides access to the courtyard, while the northern tower is square and the southern tower is octagonal. The building includes string-courses and mullioned windows. The interior is designed in the 'Gothick' style and includes an ante-room, an octagonal dining room, a ballroom, an octagonal drawing room, and "Queen Victoria's Dressing Room."
At the rear, there are extensions dated 1863, which consist of two storeys and an attic, built from rubble with gabled slate roofs and gablets. These extensions feature an oriel window and a chimney marked with the date 1863. They are connected by a rubble wall to the square towers with pyramidal roofs located at the corners of the courtyard, which can be accessed from the rear through a gateway with a curvilinear pediment.
Local climate
Kilmory Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,790 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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