Well, Glenfinart House Walled Garden is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 May 2006.

Well, Glenfinart House Walled Garden

WRENN ID
worn-terrace-harvest
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 May 2006
OS grid reference
NS 187 885
Coordinates
56.05539, -4.91218
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The walled garden at Glenfinart is a notable example of an early 19th century walled garden, featuring an unusual shape with a bowed east wall and a curved southwest corner. It is part of the remains of the Glenfinart estate.

Glenfinart House was constructed around 1837 on the site of a previous residence belonging to the earls of Dunmore, and the walled garden likely dates from this same period. The garden is enclosed by a large rubble wall approximately 3 meters high, topped with flat sandstone capstones. There are two main entrances, one to the west and one to the south. The first edition Ordnance Survey map indicates that the main range of buildings was located along the north wall, with greenhouses inside the garden; however, none of the greenhouses remain, and the brick buildings are in a ruinous state. The garden's shape is distinctive, with the southwest corner curving due to the river cutting off that section. The east wall is a long, curved structure. Just to the north of the north wall, there is a water feature, which includes a roughly formed vault over a stream.

Local climate

Well, Glenfinart House Walled Garden sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,940 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 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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