Lodge, Castlemilkgates is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1988. Lodge, smithy.
Lodge, Castlemilkgates
- WRENN ID
- iron-crypt-wren
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1988
- Type
- Lodge, smithy
- OS grid reference
- NY 158 776
- Coordinates
- 55.08599, -3.31941
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building is a lodge at Castlemilkgates, likely designed by David Bryce around 1867. It is an asymmetrical single-storey structure with an attic, possibly originally two cottages, featuring low rear wings. A detached smithy completes the courtyard to the north, which is accessed from the east. The courtyard is enclosed by screen walls with circular piers, and the ball-finialed gatepiers flanking the driveway may date from the 20th century. The lodge is constructed from snecked stugged and squared rubble, with ashlar dressings, and all roofs are covered with graded slates.
The south elevation, facing the driveway, has four bays and includes a blocked door on the left and a projecting chimney breast on the right. There are two bipartite windows with wooden mullions and three gabled dormers. The original roof is U-shaped, featuring projecting eaves and a single end stack, with the wallhead to the courtyard now raised in timber, connecting the outer gables. A gabled timber porch is located on the two-bay east flank, and there are coped stacks.
The smithy is a plain, rectangular building with a door leading to the courtyard and small-paned windows on either side. There is a vehicle opening on each long wall, with the northern opening likely enlarged and fitted with sliding doors. Inside, there is an original stone furnace with a coped wallhead stack to the north, and a large guillotine mounted beside the door. Rooflights are also present.
The gatepiers consist of two square piers, each adorned with a leaded dog's head mask, and there are wrought-iron gates.
Local climate
Lodge, Castlemilkgates sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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