Johnstone Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1971. Castle.

Johnstone Castle

WRENN ID
dreaming-jade-raven
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 June 1971
Type
Castle
OS grid reference
NS 430 622
Coordinates
55.82787, -4.50754
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Johnstone Castle is a 3-storey rubble tower featuring crowsteps and a corbelled angle turret. It has a large wall sundial dated 1700 and is attached to a square 4-storey tower with a doorway located in the re-entrant angle. The upper parts of the tower were gothicised during a reconstruction and recasting in the early 19th century. The mansion was demolished, but the original nucleus was partly restored in 1958.

Local climate

Johnstone 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 greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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