Gate Lodge And Gatepiers, Achamore Estate, Gigha is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Lodge.

Gate Lodge And Gatepiers, Achamore Estate, Gigha

WRENN ID
scattered-stair-gold
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 August 1980
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
NR 641 472
Coordinates
55.66113, -5.7505
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Gate Lodge at Achamore Estate in Gigha, dated 1895, is designed in a Scottish style and is a single-storey building. It features harled walls and a gabled slate roof. The lodge has a semi-circular porch topped with a conical roof, and the date "1895" is displayed above a window. There are gabled additions at both ends of the structure. The gate piers are also harled and topped with ball finials. Additionally, there are rubble garden walls flanking the drive.

Local climate

Gate Lodge And Gatepiers, Achamore Estate, Gigha sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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