Gate Piers, Kilcoy Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1981.
Gate Piers, Kilcoy Castle
- WRENN ID
- half-hearth-cream
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1981
- OS grid reference
- NH 576 512
- Coordinates
- 57.52886, -4.37852
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gate piers, probably dating to around 1895, are tall, square piers built of ashlar stone. They are crowned with urn finials, which may be reused elements. The piers are linked by a low wall constructed of rubble stone, and this wall extends to the north-east gable of Kilcoy Castle.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Kilcoy Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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