Caisteal Gorach, Tulloch Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Folly.
Caisteal Gorach, Tulloch Castle
- WRENN ID
- lone-lantern-amber
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Folly
- OS grid reference
- NH 544 611
- Coordinates
- 57.61658, -4.43834
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Caisteal Gorach, located at Tulloch Castle, is a picturesque folly designed by Robert Adam between 1789 and 1790. This two-storey circular tower is in a ruined state, featuring a void at the rear. It has single-storey quadrants on either side that connect to outer square terminal blocks. The structure is built from rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The central entrance is round-headed, flanked by narrow round-headed side windows. Above the entrance, there is a worn plaque, a quatrefoil vent, and two cruciform mock arrow slits. The flanking wings also contain three similar narrow round-headed lights. The wallhead is irregular in shape.
Local climate
Caisteal Gorach, Tulloch Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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