Gatepiers And Lodge, West Entrance, Wemyss Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Entrance lodge.
Gatepiers And Lodge, West Entrance, Wemyss Castle
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-merlon-swallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1979
- Type
- Entrance lodge
- OS grid reference
- NT 309 944
- Coordinates
- 56.13773, -3.11311
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gatepiers and lodge at the west entrance of Wemyss Castle, likely designed by Robert Lorimer in the later 19th century, incorporate earlier materials. This single-storey and attic structure has a rectangular plan and features a crowstepped entrance lodge. The exterior is harled with stone cills and has harled stacks. Currently, all openings are blocked, and the steeply pitched roof is in a derelict state.
On the southwest elevation, there is a door at the center of the ground floor, with a window in the bay to the right and two windows to the left. Above, three regularly spaced windows break the eaves into crowstepped dormerheads.
The gatepiers and gates consist of flat-coped, cavetto corniced, square-section, banded ashlar gatepiers that flank the carriage entrance and outer pedestrian entrances, with cross-banded timber gates. The boundary walls are made of rubble and are topped with ashlar coping.
Local climate
Gatepiers And Lodge, West Entrance, Wemyss Castle 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Branxton Farmhouse, Boreland
- Headframe And Winding Engine House, Frances Colliery, Dysart
- West Gate, Standing Stane Road, Boreland
- Bowhouse
- 43 Normand Road, Dysart
- Dysart Primary School, Normand Road, Dysart
- 41 Normand Road, Dysart
- Cowdenlaws
- United Free Church, Normand Road, Dysart
- The Bird House, Normand Road, Dysart