Larger Gate Piers, Holme House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.
Larger Gate Piers, Holme House
- WRENN ID
- fading-truss-hawk
- 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 648 792
- Coordinates
- 55.08953, -4.11947
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lesser Gate Piers at Holme House were built around 1850 and consist of two pairs of gate piers located on the main drive to Holme House. The larger pair is situated at the Lodge and features octagonal painted ashlar stone that supports stone lions. The lesser pair, located halfway along the drive, has a square section and is also made of painted ashlar, supporting lions in a couchant position.
Local climate
Larger Gate Piers, Holme House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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