Walled Garden, Birkwood House is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 May 1989. Walled garden.

Walled Garden, Birkwood House

WRENN ID
twelfth-bastion-grain
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 May 1989
Type
Walled garden
OS grid reference
NS 814 393
Coordinates
55.63318, -3.88544
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The walled garden at Birkwood House dates from the early 19th century and has a quadrangular shape, although the east wall is shallow-curved. It features rubble-built walls that are topped with ashlar coping. The gateway, located centrally on the west wall facing the house, has a gothic arch with a gable above it. In the southwest corner, there is a twin-gabled shed.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Birkwood House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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