Castle Stewart is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Towerhouse.
Castle Stewart
- WRENN ID
- stranded-entrance-vale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- Towerhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 379 690
- Coordinates
- 54.98938, -4.53496
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castle Stewart is a tower house from the late 15th century to early 16th century that is now in ruins. It has a rectangular plan, with the north and west walls still standing up to the corbelled machicolation line at the eaves. The south and east walls have completely collapsed. The structure is built from rubble, featuring chamfered angles made from small rubble stones. Some chamfered openings remain. There are bull-nosed corbels that once supported a wall walk. Notably, finely carved jambs of a chimneypiece are still visible at the first floor hall level, resembling the style and decoration found at Cardonness in Gatehouse-of-Fleet Burgh, Stewartry.
Local climate
Castle Stewart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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 0.3°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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