The gates form the entranceway to the winding drive which leads to the two storeyed timber Burnett homestead. From two massive central pillars are hung the main decorative iron gates, featuring the name of the property Strath Naver. The right hand pillar is engraved with the initials 'AB' for Andrew Burnett (the first owner of the property) and a forearm with the motto 'pioneering sweat and toil'. The left hand gate pillar is engraved with 'CB' for Catherine Burnett, Andrew's wife and the words "faith, hope, self-reliance". A New Zealand fern and a Scottish thistle are also included. At each side of the main gates the abutments curve outward, the initial section topped by castellations and the final lower end terminating with two pedestrian scaled gates. At the left hand end the iron gate has the notation "England Expects" with a wrought iron English rose symbol over it. At the right hand side the gate is decorated with a bunch of shamrocks and the words "Faugh a Ballagh", which is understood to be the motto of the Irish Guards. (Translated: "Clear the way") The curved flanking walls which abut the main gates have Gaelic inscriptions with letters made from different shaped smaller stones. These read on the left: CABHAIDH SINN AN T'SEAN RATHAD - AN RA THAD MA TH (We keep the old way - the good way). On the right: AN NI THA AGAINN CUMAI DH SINN (What we have we hold). A huge rock is set in to the right hand end of the wall. It is inscribed: Erected 1932-3 To keep minds and hands busy during the great depression 1932-3 Men learn lessons from adversity