Lodge And Gate Piers, Auchencairn House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Lodge.
Lodge And Gate Piers, Auchencairn House
- WRENN ID
- night-window-barley
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- NX 818 503
- Coordinates
- 54.83407, -3.84173
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The lodge and gate piers at Auchencairn House date from the late 19th century. The building is a granite castellated lodge that stands three stories tall, featuring a square tower with a round turret at the southeast angle. It is constructed from rock-faced granite, accented with sandstone quoins and margins. The windows are all single light with four-pane sashes.
The lodge has a corbelled-out parapet with a wall-walk along the longer sides. It is topped with a steeply pitched saddle-back slate roof, which has crowstepped gables and a tall wallhead stack on the west gable. The turret is capped with a conical roof made of fish-scale slate.
The squat square gate piers are topped with pyramidal ridged coping and ball finials.
Local climate
Lodge And Gate Piers, Auchencairn House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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