Walled Garden, Kinsteary House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 1979. House, walled garden.

Walled Garden, Kinsteary House

WRENN ID
upper-footing-rowan
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 September 1979
Type
House, walled garden
OS grid reference
NH 927 543
Coordinates
57.56625, -3.79446
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Kinsteary House is a single-storey and attic "cottage" dwelling, dated 1792. It features a distinctive five-bay north-facing facade and a U-plan garden court to the south. The building is constructed from Kinsteary pink granite rubble, accented with tooled ashlar sandstone dressings. The centre bay projects and has a gabled design with a lunette and a wrought-iron weather vane dated but missing its pointers. The ground floor includes a central Venetian window, with similar windows in the flanking recessed bays and tripartite windows in the further recessed outer bays. There are also two small piended dormers and a mix of intersecting and multi-pane glazing.

The south-facing U-plan garden court is enclosed on the east and west by domestic and office ranges, and it is closed on the south side by a low wall topped with cast-iron railings. The north and east elevations of the inner court are connected by continuous glazed lean-to extensions. The building features corniced ridge and wallhead stacks, and a piended slate roof.

Inside, the property retains original six-panelled doors and simple coved ceilings. The large walled garden is surrounded by rubble walls with ashlar copes and is lined with brick on the south and west elevations.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Kinsteary House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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