Quadrant Walls And Lamp Standards, Gatepiers, Entrance Gates, Balmoral Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Entrance gates.
Quadrant Walls And Lamp Standards, Gatepiers, Entrance Gates, Balmoral Castle
- WRENN ID
- odd-pier-autumn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 2010
- Type
- Entrance gates
- OS grid reference
- NO 260 948
- Coordinates
- 57.0391, -3.21941
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Quadrant Walls and Lamp Standards, Gatepiers, and Entrance Gates at Balmoral Castle were designed by William Smith in 1858, with the gates dated to 1919. The granite gatepiers feature stop-chamfered arrises, cornices, and ball finials, and are flanked by low quadrant walls made of squared granite with rounded coping. The decorative wrought-iron carriage gates consist of two leaves with gilded finials, cast by Waverley Foundry, and are stamped at intervals with "Waverley Best" alongside a dividing crown insignia. They also include circular panels displaying the ciphers 'GVR' and 'MR'.
Additionally, there is a pair of lamp standards created by Macfarlane and Company from Glasgow, positioned within the gates and flanking the drive. These lamp standards have moulded shafts with decorative brackets and lanterns topped with ball finials, which are capped in copper and feature a scalloped copper apron.
Local climate
Quadrant Walls And Lamp Standards, Gatepiers, Entrance Gates, Balmoral Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 88 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 68 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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