Walled Garden, Balnagown Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1983.
Walled Garden, Balnagown Castle
- WRENN ID
- night-string-finch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1983
- OS grid reference
- NH 758 753
- Coordinates
- 57.75086, -4.08829
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an 1807 walled garden located at Balnagown Castle. It is a large, semi-circular enclosure constructed of coursed rubble with an ashlar coping stone. The gardener’s cottage is not part of this listed structure. The garden walls are of excellent quality. Further information may be found in the Scottish Record Office, SC 34/23/1, 49.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Balnagown Castle receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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