Castle Keeper's Cottage, Doune Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Cottage.
Castle Keeper's Cottage, Doune Castle
- WRENN ID
- sombre-chimney-crimson
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NN 728 011
- Coordinates
- 56.18623, -4.05042
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castle Keeper's Cottage at Doune Castle dates from around 1820 and is a single-storey, L-plan structure that is semi-octagonal on the east side. The cottage is constructed of ashlar stone and features a timber porch with modern infill located in the re-entrant angle. It has a piended main roof, which is gabled on the shorter arm and includes a dormer gablet at the apex. There is a penticed roof on the south side. The windows are either two or three-light, featuring mullions and transoms with lattice glazing. The cottage has one small gabled dormer and is topped with one octagonal and one squared corniced chimney stack. The roof is covered with slate.
Local climate
Castle Keeper's Cottage, Doune Castle 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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