Main Gates And Entrance Drive, Brodick Castle Estate

The Main Gates and Entrance Drive of Brodick Castle Estate were designed by William Andrews Nesfield around 1852. They feature a pair of carriage gates flanked by pedestrian gates, all set between two pairs of stone piers. The square gatepiers are made of hammer-dressed pink stone and topped with shallow pyramidal copes. The cast iron gates have standards shaped like half-length and full-length spears, with rosette pattern friezes on the top and bottom rails. Each carriage gate displays a gilded armorial emblem with the Hamilton legend and motto. The entrance is accentuated by curved quadrant walls made of three courses with chamfered coping, which form parapets for the retaining walls. These walls are topped with a horizontal fence featuring flat profile bars. The carriageway is curved and raised, crossing a hollow with random rubble retaining walls and low parapets that have flat coping, ending with dwarf piers to the west.

To the east, there is a boundary wall that possibly dates back to the 18th century. This wall stands about 1 meter tall and stretches approximately 0.4 miles from the Main Gate along the coastal road to the northeast, ending at a 1.5-meter tall ancient milestone. It is constructed from drystane granite and sandstone rubble, with a boulder coping that is partially reinforced with mortar.

To the west, the boundary wall, also designed by W A Nesfield around 1852, is 0.9 meters tall and features 0.76-meter high railings that extend about 0.5 miles southwest from the Main Gate to the West Gate. This wall is made of squared rubble with chamfered coping, and the wrought iron railings have flat standards and three flat rails. There is an inscribed commemorative panel made of three raised courses of ashlar, topped with flat coping.

The West Gates, located at the western end of the coastal boundary wall, were built in 1911 for the Arran Estate Office. They consist of two pairs of rubble-built square piers with chamfered copes, connected by dwarf walls with plain iron railings. The iron gates feature straight uprights and a scrolled central floral motif.