Gate Piers, Foulis Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Gate Piers, Foulis Castle
- WRENN ID
- tenth-buttress-hemlock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NH 589 643
- Coordinates
- 57.64659, -4.36438
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These are later 19th-century gate piers, originally part of Foulis Castle. They consist of square, rusticated piers topped with square caps and stone eagle terminals. Low rubble quadrants connect the piers, and these quadrants are flanked by similarly detailed end piers topped with ball finials. The lodges associated with the gate piers are not listed. The gate piers were originally located on the A9 road but were removed and relocated to their current position in the early 1970s.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Foulis Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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