Gatepiers, Woodend House, Loch Fad, Rothesay is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Gatepiers.

Gatepiers, Woodend House, Loch Fad, Rothesay

WRENN ID
lost-wall-mint
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1971
Type
Gatepiers
OS grid reference
NS 075 620
Coordinates
55.81341, -5.07245
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gatepiers at Woodend House, located beside Loch Fad on the Isle of Bute, date from around 1824 to 1833. This structure consists of a row of four octagonal plan gatepiers at the entrance drive. They are made of ashlar and feature corniced caps topped with figurative busts. The vehicular access is flanked by pedestrian gateways. From left to right, the busts represent Philip Massinger, William Shakespeare, Edmund Kean, and David Garrick. The iron gates, which were renewed in 2001, are down-swept.

Local climate

Gatepiers, Woodend House, Loch Fad, Rothesay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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