Smoo Lodge is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Smoo Lodge
- WRENN ID
- waiting-alcove-snow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Smoo Lodge, IV27 4QA
- OS grid reference
- NC 416 672
- Coordinates
- 58.56392, -4.72398
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Smoo Lodge is an earlier 19th century building, likely with an earlier core. It is a two-storey structure with an irregular six-bay facade facing east and a parallel extension at the rear. The exterior is harled with contrasting painted margins. The second, third, and fourth bays are symmetrically grouped, with the entrance located in the central bay, which is now obscured by a late 19th century projecting gabled porch. A two-bay wing extends to full height at the north gable. The ground floor features one bipartite window, and there are four piended dormers. The rear includes a piended wing with a late 19th century canted bay window in the south gable and a canted dormer. The windows have 2-, 4-, and 12-pane glazing, and the building features crowstepped gables, end and ridge stacks, and slate roofs.
The gatepiers consist of a pair of square tooled ashlar gatepiers with plain square caps, accompanied by coped drystone walls.
Local climate
Smoo Lodge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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