Minard Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Minard Castle
- WRENN ID
- western-chapel-linden
- 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
- Hotel
- Address
- Minard Castle, PA32 8YB
- OS grid reference
- NR 972 942
- Coordinates
- 56.09796, -5.26059
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Minard Castle, dated 1848, was designed by John T Rochead from Glasgow. This castellated building features two and three storeys, with a front made of stugged ashlar and harled ends at the rear. It has a crenellated parapet and a gabled and piended roof behind. The castle is topped with octagonal chimneys. A central tower includes a two-storey stone porch at the front, which has ogee arches and a room above. Behind the porch is a moulded doorway with a panel inscribed '1848'. On the southwest side, there is an ogee arcade. To the northeast, there is a long one-storey wing that ends with a tower, featuring a Perpendicular window in the centre flanked by turrets.
Local climate
Minard Castle 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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