East Entrance Lodges And Gates, Castlecraig is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971.
East Entrance Lodges And Gates, Castlecraig
- WRENN ID
- lesser-quartz-ebony
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 139 445
- Coordinates
- 55.68637, -3.37075
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The East Entrance Lodges and Gates at Castlecraig consist of two lodges with a curved screen wall, railings, and gatepiers. The lodges date to circa 1798; the screen walls, railings, and gatepiers are of circa 1905. The lodges feature pedimented gables facing the road, with arched panels flanked by quatrefoil recesses. They have piended roofs at the rear.
Local climate
East Entrance Lodges And Gates, Castlecraig sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% 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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