Hensol Lodge is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. Lodge.

Hensol Lodge

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 April 1990
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
NX 664 700
Coordinates
55.0072, -4.09021
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hensol Lodge, built around 1822, is a picturesque single-storey and attic gothic lodge with an asymmetrical T-plan. It features rubble walling with granite margins and detailing, and it serves as a gateway with a granite wall that extends from the parapet of Hensol Bridge to form the entrance to Hensol House.

The south elevation has an advanced gabled bay on the right, which includes a pointed arch doorway with a hoodmould and a neo-gothic timber door. To the right of the doorway are tripartite mullioned windows, while the gable features a mullioned bipartite window with multi-pane glazing. On the left side, there is a modern plate glass window.

The west gable includes a 4-pane sash and case window on the left, with a buttressed stack that rises to two tall stacks linked at the top. The rear elevation has a 20th-century lean-to rubble extension and is topped with slate roofs. The gables are adorned with coping and skewputts, and finials are present at the apex. The lodge also features tall corniced stacks.

Local climate

Hensol Lodge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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