North West Gate, Fordell Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 2003. Gateway.

North West Gate, Fordell Castle

WRENN ID
empty-flagstone-gorse
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 March 2003
Type
Gateway
OS grid reference
NT 140 858
Coordinates
56.05757, -3.38232
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

North West Gate at Fordell Castle is an early 19th-century monumental stone gateway designed in a linear plan with quadrant ends. It features a low parapet wall topped by 11 monumental obelisk gatepiers, with four on the right side of the central gate opening and seven on the left. These gatepiers are set on moulded pedestals and have large ball finials. The original cast-iron railings are missing, and in their place, later chain-linked cast-iron posts were installed between the obelisks in 2003.

Local climate

North West Gate, Fordell Castle receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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