West Lodge Including Boundary Walls And Gates, Kemnay House is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 2006. Lodge. 2 related planning applications.
West Lodge Including Boundary Walls And Gates, Kemnay House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-basalt-sepia
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 2006
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- West Lodge Including Boundary Walls And Gates, Kemnay House, AB51 5LJ
- OS grid reference
- NJ 726 152
- Coordinates
- 57.22695, -2.45513
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Lodge, including boundary walls and gates, is a finely detailed single-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan lodge, possibly designed by John Smith and dated 1826. It is located at the west entrance to the Kemnay House policies. The lodge features triangular-plan oriel windows, steeply-pitched gables, and decorative bands of fishscale and lozenge pattern slates, along with elegant brattishing on the roof ridges. The structure is built from large blocks of bull-faced ashlar with narrow polished margins and quoin strips, and it has a deep base course.
The entrance elevation facing the driveway to the northwest is symmetrical, incorporating a projecting centre gable with chamfered outer angles. It includes a two-leaf panelled timber door with a segmental plate glass fanlight below a blind panel, and bipartite windows in the flanking bays. There are oriel windows under elongated swept roofs on the northeast and southwest gables, and three small modern rooflights on the rear (southeast) elevation.
Inside, the lodge has a simple layout with two main rooms that retain moulded cornices and fireplaces. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing. The decorative slated roof features ridge brattishing, and squat coped ashlar ridge stacks with clay cans flank the centre gabled bay. The eaves are deeply overhanging with plain bargeboarding.
The boundary walls are stepped, low, and flat-coped, made of bull-faced stone, and they are complemented by decorative ironwork gates and finialled gatepiers.
Local climate
West Lodge Including Boundary Walls And Gates, Kemnay House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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