Gate Piers, Hoddom Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Pier.
Gate Piers, Hoddom Castle
- WRENN ID
- tattered-cupola-moon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Pier
- OS grid reference
- NY 155 729
- Coordinates
- 55.04368, -3.3235
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gate piers at Hoddom Castle were likely designed by H M Wardrop of Wardrop and Anderson around 1886. They feature a symmetrical layout of Renaissance-style piers located to the south of the castle. The piers are made of ashlar stone and are square in shape, adorned with diamond panels, rosettes, and a cornice. Some of the piers have ball finials, while others are topped with gabled heads.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Hoddom Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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