West Gate, Standing Stane Road, Boreland is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1999. Gate.
West Gate, Standing Stane Road, Boreland
- WRENN ID
- spare-niche-nightshade
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1999
- Type
- Gate
- OS grid reference
- NT 303 948
- Coordinates
- 56.14114, -3.12306
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Gate, located on Standing Stane Road in Boreland, is an earlier 19th-century structure that served as the former West Gate to Wemyss Castle. It features square-section ashlar gatepiers topped with a cornice and flat coping. The gatepiers are flanked by curved walls made of ashlar-coped sandstone rubble, along with outer piers.
Local climate
West Gate, Standing Stane Road, Boreland receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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