Castle Hotel, 29 Upper Castle Hill, Stirling is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1965. Visitor centre.
Castle Hotel, 29 Upper Castle Hill, Stirling
- WRENN ID
- muted-ledge-hemlock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1965
- Type
- Visitor centre
- OS grid reference
- NS 791 939
- Coordinates
- 56.12267, -3.94485
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Castle Hotel, located at 29 Upper Castle Hill in Stirling, is an 18th century building that has undergone later additions and modern alterations. Originally, it consisted of two buildings: one two-storey and the other four-storey, reflecting the change in ground level. The exterior is harled and whitewashed, featuring painted margins and a slated roof. In 1971/2, the buildings were converted into a visitor centre by Johnston & Groves-Raines.
The southwest elevation, facing the Esplanade, is divided into two sections. The northwest end is a single-storey with a basement, featuring a bowed porch that replaces an older bowed stair. The southeast end is two-storeys tall, with three bays and two piended dormers.
The northeast elevation, facing Upper Castlehill, is four-storey with six bays. The three-bay southeast section includes a central arched top floor window that is raised in the roof. The three-bay northwest section previously had modern smoked glass oriels at the top floor, which were removed around 2004.
Local climate
Castle Hotel, 29 Upper Castle Hill, Stirling sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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