Gates And Gate Piers, Gargowan Lodge, South Avenue, Buchanan Old House is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Gatepiers, boundary wall.

Gates And Gate Piers, Gargowan Lodge, South Avenue, Buchanan Old House

WRENN ID
outer-bonework-bittern
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
Constituency
West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 February 1997
Type
Gatepiers, boundary wall
OS grid reference
NS 446 873
Coordinates
56.05409, -4.49544
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gates and gate piers at Gargowan Lodge, located on South Avenue, were likely designed by William Burn in 1854. The gate piers are a pair of large Aegypto-style structures featuring a base, battered corner pilasters that support an entablature and a depressed pyramidal cap. The outer terminal piers are covered in ivy.

The boundary wall consists of low squared and snecked quadrant walls topped with ashlar slab coping, complemented by decorative floreate cast-iron railings. The gates themselves are made of decorative cast iron and are hung on cast-iron piers.

Local climate

Gates And Gate Piers, Gargowan Lodge, South Avenue, Buchanan Old House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,630 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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