Entrance Gate Piers, Arbigland House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.
Entrance Gate Piers, Arbigland House
- WRENN ID
- idle-plinth-reed
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 988 573
- Coordinates
- 54.90071, -3.5794
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These entrance gate piers, along with associated curved low quadrant walls and wooden railings, were built circa 1805 for Arbigland House. The piers are corniced and square, topped with urn finials and raised on stepped blocks, constructed of channelled red ashlar. The inner walls of the quadrant walls are built of channelled red ashlar, while the outer walls are rubble-built with an ashlar cope. The gate piers were designed by Allan Cunningham, a mason who was also a poet. Information regarding the gate piers, including a pamphlet by Captain J B Blackett, can be found in the Ewart Library, Dumfries.
Local climate
Entrance Gate Piers, Arbigland House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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