Cleish 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.
Cleish Castle
- WRENN ID
- scattered-alcove-dust
- 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
- NT 082 979
- Coordinates
- 56.16556, -3.4792
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cleish Castle is a 16th-century tower house designed in an L-plan, featuring three storeys and a garret above a basement. The building is constructed of coursed rubble and has a slated roof with corbie steps. Although the interior was altered in 1845, the kitchen with a great fireplace still remains on the first storey. A turnpike stair leads to the second storey, and there is a corbelled stair-turret on the east side that has an inserted pediment inscribed 'R.C./B.H. 1600'.
Around 1840, additions were made, including a porch and stair in the re-entrance angle, as well as offices at the west end, which feature an earlier sundial dated 1711. The castle previously had a court, and a notable architectural feature is the south gable, which rises in a series of offsets. The walls were thinned during the 1845 alterations, the vaulting was removed from the basement chamber of the main block, and the windows were enlarged.
Local climate
Cleish 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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