Gladiator Gate And North Lodge, Glamis Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Gate lodge, gate.
Gladiator Gate And North Lodge, Glamis Castle
- WRENN ID
- deep-chapel-jet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Gate lodge, gate
- OS grid reference
- NO 377 481
- Coordinates
- 56.62073, -3.01548
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gladiator Gate and North Lodge at Glamis Castle date from the late 17th century and were re-erected on this site in the late 18th century. The structure features square-section ashlar gatepiers adorned with gladiator sculptures and castellated Tudor screen walls, complete with hoodmoulds and stone mullions.
On the west elevation, the tall piers have a pilastered front, a cornice, and large carved orb finials. The lower flanking bays display gladiators, while crenellated screen walls extend to the right, featuring a pedestrian gateway to the left and two bipartite windows in the center, which are blinded with diamond-pattern glazing. The outer crenellation is broader, and the wall slopes down to a lower square-section pier at the outer right, with boundary walls adjoining beyond. The screen wall on the left mirrors that on the right.
The east elevation has lower piers at the center with crouching lions. To the left is a pedestrian gateway, leading to a slated piend-roofed rubble lodge beyond, which has two windows and a boarded timber door on the return to the right. There is also a pedestrian gateway to the right of the center, with evidence of a similar building beyond.
The gates are decorative wrought-iron.
Local climate
Gladiator Gate And North Lodge, Glamis Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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