North Entrance, Kames is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1999. Gate entrance.
North Entrance, Kames
- WRENN ID
- fading-rubble-soot
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1999
- Type
- Gate entrance
- OS grid reference
- NT 776 459
- Coordinates
- 55.70677, -2.35679
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The North Entrance at Kames dates from the earlier to mid 19th century. It features whitewashed harl and has coped quadrant walls that flank the entrance to the northwest of Kames House. The entrance includes coursed and whitewashed square-plan outer piers topped with pyramidal caps. There are also taller, coursed and whitewashed square-plan gatepiers, which also have pyramidal caps, and the entrance is completed with two-leaf spearheaded iron gates.
Local climate
North Entrance, Kames receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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