West Gates, Dollar Academy is a Grade C listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 July 1974. Footgates.
West Gates, Dollar Academy
- WRENN ID
- silver-truss-plover
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Clackmannanshire
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1974
- Type
- Footgates
- OS grid reference
- NS 959 981
- Coordinates
- 56.16443, -3.67657
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Gates at Dollar Academy were built in the 1870s. They feature twin pedimented footgates on either side of the main gate. The gates are made of good cast iron, while the railings of the quadrant walls that connected to the outer piers have been removed.
Local climate
West Gates, Dollar Academy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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