West Lodges (South), Woodhead Street, High Valleyfield is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979.
West Lodges (South), Woodhead Street, High Valleyfield
- WRENN ID
- pitched-pavement-cedar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NT 000 864
- Coordinates
- 56.06028, -3.60646
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Lodges (North) on Woodhead Street in High Valleyfield are a pair of small, square neo-classical gate lodges made of ashlar stone, likely built in the late 18th century. They originally served as the west entrance to Valleyfield House, which was demolished in the mid-20th century. The lodges first appear on a map of the Valleyfield Estate from around 1815. They are oriented north to south, with a channelled gate pier next to the inner side of each lodge. The main (west) and rear (east) elevations feature a blind round arch in the center, with a single window opening that is now blocked. A decorative roundel depicting a horse's head and crown can still be seen on the rear of the north lodge. The inner elevations have a single door opening with plain surrounds, where a uPVC door was inserted in 2023. The original pyramidal roofs and central chimneystacks, which collapsed before 2007, have been replaced with flat roofs in recent years (2023), hidden behind corniced parapets.
Local climate
West Lodges (South), Woodhead Street, High Valleyfield sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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