Gates, Poyntzfield is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1981. Gatepiers.
Gates, Poyntzfield
- WRENN ID
- quartered-postern-ridge
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1981
- Type
- Gatepiers
- OS grid reference
- NH 708 648
- Coordinates
- 57.655, -4.16607
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gates at Poyntzfield date from the mid 18th century and feature square ashlar piers at the north entrance, which are topped with copes and ball finials. To the left of this entrance, there is a ruined arcade of a lodge. The south entrance has tall, smooth rusticated piers that also have moulded copes and banded ball finials.
Local climate
Gates, Poyntzfield sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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