Lodge, Royal Scottish National Hospital, Bellsdyke Road, Larbert is a Grade C listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 March 2001. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Lodge, Royal Scottish National Hospital, Bellsdyke Road, Larbert
- WRENN ID
- south-rubble-lark
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 March 2001
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge, Royal Scottish National Hospital, Bellsdyke Road, Larbert, FK5 4WT
- OS grid reference
- NS 858 835
- Coordinates
- 56.03094, -3.83324
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The lodge at the entrance gate to the Royal Scottish National Hospital on Bellsdyke Road in Larbert was likely built between 1862 and 1864. It is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring an asymmetrical design. The exterior is constructed from snecked and stugged ashlar, with polished ashlar dressings at the canted bay, raised quoin angles, and base courses. It has a moulded eaves cornice and segmentally arched, mullioned windows that have chamfered arrises and plate glass sashes. The roof is covered with grey slates and includes corniced ashlar stacks with decorative cans, along with bracketted skewputts and gablet skews.
The front elevation features an L-plan layout with a segmentally headed doorway that has a door with a plain fanlight. To the right of the doorway is a bipartite window. The left side has a finialled gable with a piended canted bay at the ground floor and a bipartite window in the attic.
Local climate
Lodge, Royal Scottish National Hospital, Bellsdyke Road, Larbert sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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