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
- wild-niche-sunrise
- 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
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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