Monk Castle, Dalry is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Laird's House.
Monk Castle, Dalry
- WRENN ID
- stony-belfry-linden
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- Laird's House
- OS grid reference
- NS 291 473
- Coordinates
- 55.68948, -4.71948
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Monk Castle in Dalry is a small Laird's House, likely dating from the early 17th century. Although it is roofless, the walls remain largely intact and are constructed from coarsed stone blocks. The building features crowstepped gables with skews and has a long rectangular plan with a square projecting staircase turret. The low, wide doorway is adorned with three pieces of grotesque sculpture above it, and the ground floor was originally vaulted.
Local climate
Monk Castle, Dalry sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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