Dairy Byre, Taymouth Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1998. Byre.
Dairy Byre, Taymouth Castle
- WRENN ID
- inner-bastion-briar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1998
- Type
- Byre
- OS grid reference
- NN 781 456
- Coordinates
- 56.58688, -3.98599
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dairy Byre at Taymouth Castle is a later 19th-century building designed in an L-plan layout. It is constructed from chloritic schist ashlar and features a three-aisle, seven-bay design. The roof is made of timber and supported by square-section cast-iron columns, with some wooden trevises and ceramic water troughs included in the structure. At the western end, there is accommodation and a dairy range, which includes an attic room and two wall-head chimney stacks. The building is topped with a slate roof that has open eaves and wavy barge boards on the gables.
Local climate
Dairy Byre, Taymouth Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 80 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 58 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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