Entrance Gates, Balnagown Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Entrance Gates, Balnagown Castle
- WRENN ID
- upper-dormer-yarrow
- 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 761 746
- Coordinates
- 57.74482, -4.08247
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These entrance gates, dated 1807 and attributed to Robert Meikle, Mason, serve Balnagown Castle. The gates comprise two pairs of square gate piers constructed from ashlar stone. These piers feature fluted bands around the middle and square caps. The piers are connected by broached ashlar quadrants leading to similar end piers. The central pair of piers support cast-iron carriage gates, which are decorated with spearhead detailing, and matching flanking pedestrian gates. The gates open directly onto the A9 road.
Local climate
Entrance Gates, Balnagown Castle receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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