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

Walled Garden, Murthly Castle

WRENN ID
carved-flagstone-juniper
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Garden
OS grid reference
NO 072 398
Coordinates
56.5411, -3.5105
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The walled garden at Murthly Castle features a two-storey garden house with an ogee roof and an outside stair. The structure is dated 1669 and 1712 at the dormerheads, with 1713 noted on the weathervane. The garden includes gate piers topped with decorative beasts, as well as steps and urns that date from the mid-19th century.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Murthly Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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