Gate Piers, Main Drive, Kinmount House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 September 1987. Gatepiers.

Gate Piers, Main Drive, Kinmount House

WRENN ID
narrow-pinnacle-tallow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 September 1987
Type
Gatepiers
OS grid reference
NY 145 690
Coordinates
55.00901, -3.33827
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gate piers at Kinmount House, possibly designed by Sir Robert Smirke around 1815, were relocated to their current position in the early 20th century. There are seven piers set back from the main road, with curved long quadrants and two additional piers at the ends. All the piers are constructed of pink ashlar. The square piers include two massive inner piers, each topped with flat pyramidal caps. The quadrants are made of stugged ashlar and feature a moulded coping. The wooden gates are not original to the structure.

Local climate

Gate Piers, Main Drive, Kinmount House 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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