North Gate, Bowland Policies, Bowland is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 November 2007. Gate lodge.

North Gate, Bowland Policies, Bowland

WRENN ID
scattered-steel-honey
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 November 2007
Type
Gate lodge
OS grid reference
NT 453 399
Coordinates
55.65037, -2.86962
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

North Gate, located at Bowland Policies in Bowland, is a 2-storey gate lodge built around 1820 in the castellated-gothic revival style. The lodge has a square plan and features adjoining Tudor-arched vehicle and pedestrian gateways on the right, along with an octagonal turret at the far right. It is constructed from coursed black whinstone with pale sandstone ashlar dressings, some of which are broached. The building includes a base course, a first-floor cill course, and a corbelled and machicolated parapet, with a curved parapet wall to the left.

The lodge is adorned with timber-mullioned, hoodmoulded Tudor windows, while the turret has slit windows, most of which are blind. It also features diamond-paned leaded casement windows, and both the front and rear elevations are identical. There is a flat-roofed single-storey extension on the south side elevation.

The entrance is marked by swept, spear-headed iron gates that display a trefoil pattern and pointed-arch forms, topped with pinecone finials.

Local climate

North Gate, Bowland Policies, Bowland receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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