Walled Garden, Blair Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Garden.
Walled Garden, Blair Castle
- WRENN ID
- drifting-rubblework-aspen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Garden
- OS grid reference
- NN 870 663
- Coordinates
- 56.7749, -3.85024
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Blair Castle is a large enclosure made of rubble stone, featuring ornamental water. It has a west gate with a segmental arch and niches in the west wall that hold small marble statues, including an eagle. On the east wall, there is a gazebo with an ogee roof. The garden also includes wrought iron gates that are dated 1919 and 1924.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Blair Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 82 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 63 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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