Walled Garden With Summerhouse, Kilmaron Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Garden wall, gatepiers, summerhouse.
Walled Garden With Summerhouse, Kilmaron Castle
- WRENN ID
- distant-ashlar-foxglove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1984
- Type
- Garden wall, gatepiers, summerhouse
- OS grid reference
- NO 362 160
- Coordinates
- 56.33257, -3.03261
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden with Summerhouse at Kilmaron Castle was likely designed by architect James Gillespie Graham and built around 1820. It features a rectangular garden enclosed by rubble-built walls, with the west elevation finished in stugged ashlar and topped with a crenellated parapet. The entrance is marked by panelled, chamfered, and castellated square gatepiers made of polished ashlar on plinths, which support later decorative wrought-iron gates.
Against the east wall stands a mid-19th century octagonal Gothick summerhouse. This structure has a square-headed door that is accessed by steps and flanked by pointed window openings. It also features a crenellated parapet with machicolations, a faceted roof covered in fish-scale slates, and an elaborate weather vane finial. Additionally, there is a disused ice house located to the north of the garden.
Local climate
Walled Garden With Summerhouse, Kilmaron Castle receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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