Dunphail Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. Castle.
Dunphail Castle
- WRENN ID
- calm-lime-martin
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- Type
- Castle
- OS grid reference
- NJ 007 481
- Coordinates
- 57.51217, -3.65916
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dunphail Castle features a late medieval vaulted undercroft made of rubble, which is now heavily overgrown. This structure is adjacent to a tall, two-storey, single-bay gabled wing from the 17th century. The wing is set into a slope and has harled walls with ashlar dressings around the chamfered windows on both the ground and first floors. The building is currently roofless.
Local climate
Dunphail Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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