Gate Piers And Quadrant Walls, Southwest Entrance, Embassy Hotel, Newbridge is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 July 1961. Gatepiers and walls.
Gate Piers And Quadrant Walls, Southwest Entrance, Embassy Hotel, Newbridge
- WRENN ID
- endless-thatch-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1961
- Type
- Gatepiers and walls
- OS grid reference
- NX 946 788
- Coordinates
- 55.09279, -3.65242
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gate piers and quadrant walls at the southwest entrance of the Embassy Hotel in Newbridge were designed by architect Walter Newall in the early 19th century. The structure features square outer piers topped with plain coping and a blocking course. These piers are connected by convex dwarf walls that support plain cast-iron railings. The circular gate piers are corniced and adorned with antefixae. The material used is painted ashlar.
Local climate
Gate Piers And Quadrant Walls, Southwest Entrance, Embassy Hotel, Newbridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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