Gate Piers And Quadrant Walls, Shennanton House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 1991. Gatehouse.
Gate Piers And Quadrant Walls, Shennanton House
- WRENN ID
- deep-fireplace-ebony
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1991
- Type
- Gatehouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 341 639
- Coordinates
- 54.94212, -4.59125
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gate piers and quadrant walls at Shennanton House were designed by Henry E. Clifford in 1908. They are made of Creetown granite and feature quadrant walls arranged in a Cyclopean pattern with rounded coping. There is a pair of square granite gate piers that are also coped. The entrance includes a decorative timber gate and is flanked by cast- and wrought-iron railings that have arrowhead groups.
Local climate
Gate Piers And Quadrant Walls, Shennanton House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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