West Lodge, Leith Hall is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 November 1991. Gatelodge. 2 related planning applications.

West Lodge, Leith Hall

WRENN ID
dusted-bailey-bistre
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 November 1991
Type
Gatelodge
Address
West Lodge, Leith Hall, AB54 4NL
OS grid reference
NJ 536 298
Coordinates
57.35715, -2.77157
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

West Lodge at Leith Hall is a late 19th-century gatelodge featuring three bays and a single storey with an attic. The building has a symmetrical design, highlighted by a central entrance porch supported by rustic columns, with 4-pane sash and case windows on either side at ground level. The front elevation is constructed from Aberdeen bond black granite, accented with sandstone dressings, while the side elevations are rendered, and there is a slate-roofed lean-to addition at the rear. The pitched roof of the porch rises above the eaves at the center, and there are two dormer windows with 6-pane sash and case glazing set in a steeply pitched slated roof, which also has overhanging bracketed eaves similar to those of the porch.

At the rear, there are single ground-floor windows on each gable end, and end stacks are present. The gatelodge is complemented by square-plan gatepiers topped with ball finials, which are part of the curved boundary walls made of rubble and crenellated with rubble copings. The elaborate wrought-iron gates, dating from around 1900, feature a monogram "CENLH" for Charles Edward Norman Hay-Leith and consist of two leaves at the center, with two pedestrian gates on either side. Additionally, there is a small round-headed post-box from the Edwardian period attached to the gate on the left.

Local climate

West Lodge, Leith Hall receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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