Pink Lodge, Ascog House, Ascog is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1998. Gatelodge.
Pink Lodge, Ascog House, Ascog
- WRENN ID
- ruined-tin-sparrow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1998
- Type
- Gatelodge
- OS grid reference
- NS 106 633
- Coordinates
- 55.82632, -5.02457
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Pink Lodge, also known as Ascog House, is a single-storey gatelodge built around 1842, possibly by James Hamilton, featuring an attic and a three-bay, L-plan design. The exterior is finished in painted harl with raised painted margins, strip quoins, and overhanging timber bracketed eaves. The entrance includes a consoled doorpiece with a two-leaf timber panelled door and a bipartite fanlight, flanked by consoles beneath a stylised pediment. There are single windows in recessed bays on the ground floor to the outer left and right.
On the northeast side, there are single windows on both floors in an advanced gabled bay to the outer right, which has a consoled pediment above the ground floor opening. The left side features blind bays that are recessed.
The windows predominantly consist of 12-pane lying-pane timber sash and case glazing. The roof is covered with graded grey slate, and there are replacement rainwater goods. The ridge stacks are corniced and stop-chamfered, square-plan with octagonal cans.
The interior was not seen in 1996.
The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of a coped, coursed sandstone wall that encloses the site at the front. Low coped, curved sandstone ashlar walls flank the estate entrance to the right, along with paired square-plan piers featuring plinths, roll-moulded panelling with droved dressings, anthemion-frieze detailing, pyramidal caps, and ball finials on the outer piers. The inner piers have lamp-stands, although the lamps are missing. There are also ball-finialed piers to the outer left and right, and the gates are missing.
Local climate
Pink Lodge, Ascog House, Ascog sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,740 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow 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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