North Lodge With Gates And Quadrant Walls, Swinton House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 September 1998. Quadrant wall.
North Lodge With Gates And Quadrant Walls, Swinton House
- WRENN ID
- mired-cinder-bracken
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1998
- Type
- Quadrant wall
- OS grid reference
- NT 810 475
- Coordinates
- 55.72132, -2.30311
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
North Lodge with gates and quadrant walls at Swinton House dates from the mid to later 19th century. It features low, coped tooled sandstone quadrant walls that flank the northern entrance, along with decorative iron railings. The outer piers are square-plan and made of coursed ashlar, showcasing strapwork detailing on the ball finials. The inner piers, which are paired to the right, are stop-chamfered and square-plan, also with strapwork detailing on the ball finials, although the finial on the left is missing. The structure includes decorative iron gates for both pedestrians and vehicles.
Local climate
North Lodge With Gates And Quadrant Walls, Swinton House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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