Main Entrance With Boundary Wall And Turning Point, Whitchester is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 August 1998. House.
Main Entrance With Boundary Wall And Turning Point, Whitchester
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-pinnacle-mist
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1998
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 720 590
- Coordinates
- 55.82382, -2.44765
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The main entrance with boundary wall and turning point at Whitchester dates from the later 19th century and is located to the northeast of Whitchester House.
The main entrance features low coped quadrant walls that flank a recessed central entrance, which is adorned with decorative wrought-iron railings. At the outer ends, there are panelled octagonal iron piers topped with ball finials. The central area includes paired sandstone ashlar octagonal piers with tiered caps and ball finials, along with a central set of two-leaf decorative wrought-iron gates and pedestrian entrance gates in the flanking bays.
The turning point consists of a low coped unbroken quadrant wall opposite the entrance, creating a turning area. This section also has decorative wrought-iron railings and two scrolled brackets at the rear, along with a panelled octagonal iron pier with a ball finial on the outer right, while the left pier is missing.
Local climate
Main Entrance With Boundary Wall And Turning Point, Whitchester receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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