Walled Garden, Kirkmichael House, Parkgate is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
Walled Garden, Kirkmichael House, Parkgate
- WRENN ID
- patient-hearth-solstice
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- OS grid reference
- NY 023 868
- Coordinates
- 55.16599, -3.53492
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The walled garden at Kirkmichael House, Parkgate, likely dates to around 1834, coinciding with the construction of the house itself. It is a large, quadrangular garden enclosed by high walls constructed of rubble stone, with portions lined with brick. The walls are topped with flat ashlar coping and feature buttresses. A lower section of the east wall supports wrought iron railings. The wall curves upwards along the north side, behind a range of glasshouses, and also rises to support symmetrically placed stacks from a boiler house. Gateways are located on either side of the boiler house range. The statutory address of the garden is The Barony Walled Garden.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Kirkmichael House, Parkgate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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