Walled Garden And Adam Monument, Blair Adam is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Walled garden.
Walled Garden And Adam Monument, Blair Adam
- WRENN ID
- upper-courtyard-swallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Walled garden
- OS grid reference
- NT 131 959
- Coordinates
- 56.14849, -3.39904
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden and Adam Monument at Blair Adam were laid out between 1755 and 1761 by John Adam. The garden features a regular northern part enclosed by a high wall on three sides. The Gardener's House is two storeys high and harled, with a blind Venetian doorway and a pyramidal roof. The structure known as "The Temple" has a Doric entrance leading to a shed on the eastern wall. The southern part of the garden is irregularly shaped. There is a south gate with rusticated piers and a sundial located in the center of the garden.
Local climate
Walled Garden And Adam Monument, Blair Adam receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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