Gatepiers, Aldourie Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. Gate piers.
Gatepiers, Aldourie Castle
- WRENN ID
- fading-zinc-autumn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Gate piers
- OS grid reference
- NH 602 369
- Coordinates
- 57.40119, -4.32802
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gatepiers at Aldourie Castle date from around 1860. There are two pairs of short, rustic, black-painted cast-iron gate piers that flank the main drive and the outer pedestrian entrances. The gates themselves are missing.
Local climate
Gatepiers, Aldourie Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% 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 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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.
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