Quadrant Walls And Gatepiers At West Lodge, Brucklay Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 2004. Castle.

Quadrant Walls And Gatepiers At West Lodge, Brucklay Castle

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 2004
Type
Castle
OS grid reference
NJ 899 493
Coordinates
57.53434, -2.16956
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The quadrant walls and gatepiers at West Lodge, Brucklay Castle, were possibly designed by Matthews and Mackenzie in the 1890s. They feature semicircular-coped, bull-faced granite walls, along with square-section ashlar gatepiers that have stop-chamfered edges, moulded cornices, and pyramidally-coped tops.

Local climate

Quadrant Walls And Gatepiers At West Lodge, Brucklay Castle receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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