Gates, Church Lodge, Lochinch Castle, Lochinch Heritage Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Gatepiers and boundary walls.

Gates, Church Lodge, Lochinch Castle, Lochinch Heritage Estate

WRENN ID
rusted-dormer-thyme
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
Gatepiers and boundary walls
OS grid reference
NX 101 603
Coordinates
54.90156, -4.963
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gates at Church Lodge, Lochinch Castle, date from the later 19th century. They feature a two-leaf decorative iron gate for the vehicular entrance, along with single gates for the pedestrian entrances on either side. The gates are flanked by four square-plan sandstone gatepiers that have cornices and ball finials. There are low coped quadrant boundary walls topped with decorative iron railings, and the square-plan gatepiers extend to the outer left and right. Additionally, there is a higher coped boundary wall that encloses the estate.

Local climate

Gates, Church Lodge, Lochinch Castle, Lochinch Heritage Estate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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