Kinnaird Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Tower house.

Kinnaird Castle

WRENN ID
quiet-crypt-grove
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Tower house
OS grid reference
NO 241 289
Coordinates
56.44617, -3.23244
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kinnaird Castle is a tower house built around 1500, featuring four storeys and an attic, measuring 38 feet 6 inches by 27 feet 2 inches. It has a small jamb at the southwest corner and includes a small detached two-storey house to the east, which is dated 1610 and has the initials P.T.I.I.M.O. in the pediment of its first-floor window. The ground floor of this house contains a kitchen that measures 14 feet 6 inches by 13 feet 6 inches and features an arched fireplace measuring 13 feet 6 inches by 6 feet. There is a terrace that links this house to the main tower. The castle is topped with corbelled battlements and has a tall roof. To the west, there are remains of a courtyard. The structure was restored in 1855, having been roofless before that date, and two windows in the eastern part have been recently enlarged.

Local climate

Kinnaird Castle receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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