Carleton Castle is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Castle.

Carleton Castle

WRENN ID
stranded-beam-poplar
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 April 1971
Type
Castle
OS grid reference
NX 133 895
Coordinates
55.16468, -4.93248
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Carleton Castle is an ancient tower associated with the Cathcart family, who also owned Killochan Castle. The tower has a typical quadrilateral shape and originally featured a vault over the ground floor and another over the hall floor, with some remnants of these vaults still visible. However, much of the structure is now in a state of ruin.

Local climate

Carleton Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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