Gates And Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Speirs School, Beith is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 2004. Gatepiers, railings, boundary walls.

Gates And Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Speirs School, Beith

WRENN ID
north-transept-river
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 March 2004
Type
Gatepiers, railings, boundary walls
OS grid reference
NS 352 532
Coordinates
55.74436, -4.62664
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gates and boundary walls at Speirs School in Beith were designed by James Sellars in 1887. They feature two tall and imposing gatepiers, which have been altered as the original gates were replaced with non-descript versions. Each pier is quatrefoil in shape, standing on a low, shaped plinth with a corniced top. At the top of each pier is an attenuated pyramidal cap that rests on four spheres. There is also a low coped wall with cast iron railings above it, along with an entrance gate to the right. The boundary wall along the road is made of squared and snecked tooled red Ballochmyle sandstone, with dressed ashlar piers.

Local climate

Gates And Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Speirs School, Beith sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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