Walled 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 20 July 1972.
Walled Garden, Castle Kennedy, Lochinch Heritage Estate
- WRENN ID
- proud-tallow-pigeon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- OS grid reference
- NX 110 608
- Coordinates
- 54.90672, -4.94914
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The walled garden at Castle Kennedy, part of the Lochinch Heritage Estate, dates to approximately 1607, with later alterations. It has a square plan and covers an area of roughly 6400 square metres. The garden is enclosed by rubble walls, with coped gatepiers and arched wrought-iron gates at the north-east and south-west elevations. The north-east gatepiers have ball finials, while the south-west gatepiers are topped with obelisk finials resting on ball-feet. The remains of two summerhouses are located in the south-west and south-east corners. There are also two advanced alcoves built into the south-east and north-west walls.
The garden walls were likely constructed when the castle was improved around 1607 and were marked into quarters on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1848. The south-west gatepiers, with their obelisk finials on ball-feet, are similar to those found near the entrance to Castle Kennedy itself and date from the earlier 18th century.
This garden is part of a group that includes Castle Kennedy and several other buildings and structures within the Lochinch Heritage Estate, such as Balker Farmhouse, Balker Lodge, and Lochinch Castle. Historical references to the garden appear in J Ainslie’s Wigton map of 1782, the Ordnance Survey map of 1848, and publications dating from 1875 to 1996.
Local climate
Walled 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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