Including Courtyard Walls, 1, 2 And 3 Long Barn, Castle Semple is a Grade C listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 June 1980. Former estate offices. 4 related planning applications.

Including Courtyard Walls, 1, 2 And 3 Long Barn, Castle Semple

WRENN ID
final-rafter-pearl
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 June 1980
Type
Former estate offices
Address
Including Courtyard Walls, 1, 2 And 3 Long Barn, Castle Semple, PA12 4HN
OS grid reference
NS 378 605
Coordinates
55.8112, -4.58913
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, including the courtyard walls and Long Barns 1, 2, and 3 at Castle Semple, dates from the late 18th century. It is a long, single-storey structure that is largely symmetrical in design, originally serving as estate offices, and features two-storey square-plan towers at both the east and west ends. As of 2011, it has been converted into housing. The exterior is constructed from whinstone rubble with ashlar margins, showcasing some pointed-arched door and window openings alongside rectangular openings. The east and west towers have a consoled cornice, with the west tower featuring an ashlar western elevation and a large pointed-arch opening that has a trefoil opening above it, flanked by pointed-arch openings with moulded surrounds. There are also some dormers that rise above the wallhead on the north elevation.

The building has predominantly non-traditional replacement windows, but there is a single timber sash and case window on the upper storey at the northeast corner, which includes timber Y-tracery. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a round stack on the east side.

The courtyard features coped rubble walls to the north, which include square gatepiers to the west.

Inside, which was partially seen in 2011, the building has been converted into three dwellings and contains predominantly later interior features.

Local climate

Including Courtyard Walls, 1, 2 And 3 Long Barn, Castle Semple sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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