Gates And Gate Piers, North Drive, Gordonstoun House is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. Gatepiers and walls.

Gates And Gate Piers, North Drive, Gordonstoun House

WRENN ID
lesser-alcove-root
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 November 1987
Type
Gatepiers and walls
OS grid reference
NJ 182 693
Coordinates
57.70611, -3.3727
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gates and gate piers at North Drive, Gordonstoun House, date from around 1900. They consist of four gate piers and retaining walls made of square, corniced, rusticated ashlar. Only the central pair of piers has caps and urns. The main carriage entrance is flanked by wide pedestrian entrances. The gates are earlier 20th century wrought iron, with the pedestrian gates set within a decorative wrought-iron screen. The retaining walls are made of coped rubble.

Local climate

Gates And Gate Piers, North Drive, Gordonstoun House 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 lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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