Entrance Gateway, Aucheneck House is a Grade C listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 October 2002. Entrance gateway.
Entrance Gateway, Aucheneck House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-screen-storm
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 October 2002
- Type
- Entrance gateway
- OS grid reference
- NS 496 837
- Coordinates
- 56.02311, -4.41421
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The entrance gateway to Aucheneck House, built around 1880, features an impressive design with an adjacent lodge and remodelling of the house. The gateway is marked by central piers topped with obelisk finials and flanked by swept wing walls. The piers are made of sandstone ashlar, with the ones at the ends of the wing walls being droved. The wing walls are constructed from coursed, decoratively tooled sandstone, finished with ashlar coping.
At the center of the gateway, there is a pair of rectangular-plan gatepiers, although the gates themselves are missing. Each gatepier has a base course, frieze, and cornice, with attached piers on both the eastern and western faces. The rounded coping of these piers is also topped with obelisk finials. The wing walls feature V-shaped coping that is flattened at the apex and topped with decorative cast-iron railings, although a section is missing on the northern side. These railings incorporate trefoil finials and bands of cusped motifs. The wings of the gateway end at chamfered square-plan piers, which rise to an octagonal plan above, each with a base course, frieze, cornice, and octagonal pyramid coping.
Local climate
Entrance Gateway, Aucheneck House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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