Tower Lodge, Dunrobin Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.

Tower Lodge, Dunrobin Castle

WRENN ID
south-brass-cedar
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
OS grid reference
NC 839 001
Coordinates
57.9758, -3.96367
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dated 1865, Tower Lodge is a single-storey and attic L-plan house situated within the grounds of Dunrobin Castle. A projecting porch, with canted sides and rising the full height of the building, is positioned in the south-west re-entrant angle. A large, two-storey circular tower with a conical roof is attached to the south gable. The exterior is of rubble construction with tooled dressings. The main house features small, mainly light, bipartites and tripartites. There are two small, gabletted dormers in the west-facing elevation.

The tower has an entrance in the angle with the south gable of the house; a forestair is located on the east side. The first floor of the tower is characterised by pointed-headed windows. The building has varied glazing, tall lateral stacks, and slate roofs.

Local climate

Tower Lodge, Dunrobin Castle receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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