Gatepiers, St David's Highschool, Newbattle Road is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 2000. Gatepiers, walls. 1 related planning application.
Gatepiers, St David's Highschool, Newbattle Road
- WRENN ID
- stony-nave-crag
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 2000
- Type
- Gatepiers, walls
- OS grid reference
- NT 328 664
- Coordinates
- 55.88657, -3.07445
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gatepiers at St David's High School date from the late 19th century and feature a carriage gateway flanked by pedestrian gateways. They are located at the junction of the B703, Newbattle Road, and Abbey Road. The central area includes replacement two-leaf gates, flanked by two corniced, chamfered, and panelled sandstone piers that sit on moulded bases. These piers are topped with unicorns that support heraldic shields displaying the Lothian sun motif and the initials WL, which stand for William, Marquis of Lothian. Above these, there are corniced square, panelled blocks carved with the Lothian coat of arms and the sun motif. The original pedestrian gates are flanked by chamfered and corniced outer piers, which are also topped with Lothian sun finials resting on urns with floreate bases. The structure includes snecked sandstone quadrant walls, with an ashlar base and corniced coping that ends with plain chamfered corniced piers featuring urn finials before connecting to the rubble walls of Newbattle Road and Abbey Road.
Local climate
Gatepiers, St David's Highschool, Newbattle Road receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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