Kitchen Garden, Castle Kennedy, Lochinch Heritage Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 2000. Garden.

Kitchen Garden, Castle Kennedy, Lochinch Heritage Estate

WRENN ID
noble-copper-spring
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 January 2000
Type
Garden
OS grid reference
NX 112 609
Coordinates
54.90707, -4.94592
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Kitchen Garden at Castle Kennedy, part of the Lochinch Heritage Estate, dates back to 1733. It is a near rectangular-plan walled garden situated on a sloping site, covering approximately 6300 square meters. The garden is enclosed by a coped red brick wall, with the northeast wall designed as a 'hot wall'. In the mid-19th century, glasshouses were built against the northeast wall, although most have been demolished, with some modern replacements still present. The garden features timber doors at all entrances, and there is an iron gate on the southwest elevation. Along the outer northeast wall, there is a range of lean-to storage sheds, while the outer southwest wall has stepped terracing. The piers of the garden are topped with ball finials, many of which are broken or missing.

Local climate

Kitchen Garden, Castle Kennedy, Lochinch Heritage Estate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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