Garden Gate, Smiddy Bank, South Ronaldsay is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. House.

Garden Gate, Smiddy Bank, South Ronaldsay

WRENN ID
low-window-vetch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 December 1977
Type
House
OS grid reference
ND 444 937
Coordinates
58.82807, -2.96296
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Garden Gate, located on Smiddy Bank in South Ronaldsay, is a 17th century structure featuring rusticated stonework. It has a moulded cornice and is topped with a heraldic panel that is dated 1633 and 1693, supported by scrolls. The gate also includes a segmental pediment adorned with a figure of a mermaid.

Local climate

Garden Gate, Smiddy Bank, South Ronaldsay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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