Knockbreck Gardens, Knockbreck House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Walled garden.

Knockbreck Gardens, Knockbreck House

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 August 1983
Type
Walled garden
OS grid reference
NH 787 812
Coordinates
57.80439, -4.04148
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Knockbreck Gardens, associated with Knockbreck House, dates from around 1820. It features a large walled garden with rounded corners, constructed from coursed rubble with an ashlar coping. There is a single-storey, two-bay garden bothy made of harl pointed rubble that adjoins the rounded corner on the west side, topped with a slated roof.

Local climate

Knockbreck Gardens, Knockbreck House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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