Walled Garden, Erchless Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.
Walled Garden, Erchless Castle
- WRENN ID
- strange-rood-soot
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- OS grid reference
- NH 409 408
- Coordinates
- 57.43029, -4.65159
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a large walled garden, constructed between 1814 and 1815 for William Chisholm of Chisholm. Designed and built by Thomas Muirison, the garden features high rubble walls reinforced with semi-circular rubble buttresses, topped with tooled ashlar copes. A tall, round-headed arched entrance is located on the east side, and is currently closed by double plank doors. The garden was built at a cost of £717.16.2p. Records from the National Monuments Record of Scotland document the garden’s construction.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Erchless Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 56 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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