Gates And Boundary Walls, Gate Piers, Castle Kennedy, 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.
Gates And Boundary Walls, Gate Piers, Castle Kennedy, Lochinch Heritage Estate
- WRENN ID
- tattered-ledge-nightshade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- OS grid reference
- NX 112 607
- Coordinates
- 54.90589, -4.94524
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These 18th-century gate piers, gates, and boundary walls form an impressive entrance to Castle Kennedy, located within the Lochinch Heritage Estate and accessed after crossing the adjacent Castle Kennedy bridge. The gate piers are square in plan, with corniced tops, and are finished with obelisk finials resting on ball feet. A decorative two-leaf iron gate, with a curved apex, spans the entrance. The boundary walls are constructed from coped rubble and are flanked by additional piers matching the design of the main gate piers. The entrance marks a significant feature within the wider estate, which includes several other listed buildings and structures. Historic maps from 1782 show the bridge at this location, and various historical publications further document the estate and its features throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Local climate
Gates And Boundary Walls, Gate Piers, Castle Kennedy, Lochinch Heritage Estate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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