Walled Garden, Westerton House is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971.
Walled Garden, Westerton House
- WRENN ID
- odd-ashlar-ochre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 412 833
- Coordinates
- 56.01692, -4.54753
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Westerton House is an early 19th-century classical house with alterations and additions made around 1910. It features two storeys and an attic, with a symmetrical design comprising five bays on the right and a later sixth bay on the outer left. The exterior is finished in painted stucco and includes a base course, blocking course, and paired pilasters flanking the original bays.
The south elevation, or main front, has a pedimented centerpiece that highlights the five-bay block. It includes a modest tripartite doorpiece with a two-leaf studded Gothick door, a blind round-arched fanlight, and narrow lights. Above the door is a broad window flanked by blind oculi and topped with a triangular pediment that has a blind oculus at the center, capped by urns. The two symmetrical bays on either side are terminated by paired pilasters, and there are later canted dormers symmetrically placed. The broad sixth bay on the outer left has windows on both the ground and first floors. An L-plan link connects to a service block on the outer right, which was formerly a gabled rectangular block serving as a chapel.
The west side elevation has two bays, featuring an advanced full-height projecting tripartite window, with bipartite windows symmetrically placed to the outer left, and canted dormers.
The north rear elevation includes a piend-roofed blank block on the outer right, with recessed bays at the center and an advanced single-storey, two-bay block on the outer left.
The windows are plate glass timber sash and case, and the roof is covered with grey slate and lead flashings, with coped apex and ridge stacks.
The service wing is a two-storey gabled block aligned north-south, with the rear portion possibly having had ecclesiastical use, also finished in stucco. The north elevation features a pointed arch window with a leaded light at the center, flanked by blind cruciform arrowslits at the ground level, and three blind quatrefoils symmetrically arranged in the gable. The south elevation has a blank gable, while the east elevation consists of three bays, with a window at ground level to the right, a bipartite window above with a gable breaking the eaves, a broad blank bay at the center, and a bipartite window at ground level with a dormer-headed bipartite window above on the left.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Westerton House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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