East Gate-Piers, The Park, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 1973.

East Gate-Piers, The Park, Culross

WRENN ID
empty-tracery-merlin
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 July 1973
OS grid reference
NS 987 862
Coordinates
56.0586, -3.62717
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The West Gate-Piers at The Park in Culross is an entrance gate to Culross Park House, located to the north of Park Lodge. It features a pair of chamfered square-plan piers with a base course and coping stone. A tall wall curves to the north, decreasing in height as it extends northwards. This wall continues west along Gallows Loan, constructed of rubble with slightly projecting dressed stone blocks at the top and re-used corniced coping stone to the west. The wall also runs southwards to the west entrance gate, where there is a break for access to a footpath.

To the south, there is a corniced square-plan pier with a conical coping stone, alongside a snecked quadrant wall with ashlar coping leading to a chamfered and corniced square-plan gatepier. A pair of metal gates is present, with a matching gatepier to the right and a swept wall to the outer pier, which also features a corniced conical coping stone. The rubble wall continues south down Erskine Brae, curving eastwards to run north along Kirk Street, with a doorway located south of Erskine Brae. The wall continues northwards, bending west with a moulded ashlar doorpiece that leads to the former gardens of Culross Park House. Finally, the wall continues north to join the eastern entrance gate, with a pier at the angle featuring a conical coping stone by the entrance gatepiers.

Local climate

East Gate-Piers, The Park, Culross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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