East Gateway, Calder House is a Grade A listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Gateway.

East Gateway, Calder House

WRENN ID
plain-alcove-solstice
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Gateway
OS grid reference
NT 074 671
Coordinates
55.88888, -3.48171
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The East Gateway at Calder House, dated 1670, is a Renaissance structure featuring dressed stone gate-piers with alternate courses that are hammer-dressed. The upper parts of the gateway form a broken pediment and are topped with ball-finials. There is an ornamented frieze displaying the date, and the return walls also feature ball-finials. The gateway is completed with cast iron gates.

Local climate

East Gateway, Calder House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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