Castle, Castle Island is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Ruins.

Castle, Castle Island

WRENN ID
strange-floor-wind
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
Ruins
OS grid reference
NX 292 540
Coordinates
54.85241, -4.66067
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The site features the ruins of a castle located on Castle Island. It includes the remains of several rectangular-plan buildings constructed with dry-stone masonry. A dry-stone wall encircles the island.

Local climate

Castle, Castle Island sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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