Walled Garden, Balloch Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Walled garden.

Walled Garden, Balloch Castle

WRENN ID
buried-arch-curlew
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
Constituency
West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1996
Type
Walled garden
OS grid reference
NS 390 825
Coordinates
56.00891, -4.58239
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Balloch Castle dates from the early 19th century and features a square design. It is constructed from squared and snecked rubble with harl-pointing, and has red sandstone quoins. The coping is made of sandstone slabs that sweep up towards the main wall. There are droved red sandstone margined doors and a cast-iron gate. The east wall includes a large depressed arch gate with red sandstone voussoirs and cast-iron gates.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Balloch Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% 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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