Gate Lodge And Gate Piers, Inverlochy Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. 1 related planning application.
Gate Lodge And Gate Piers, Inverlochy Castle
- WRENN ID
- little-passage-hazel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- OS grid reference
- NN 140 765
- Coordinates
- 56.84347, -5.04963
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a gate lodge and gate piers, likely designed by Hesketh in 1863 as part of the Inverlochy Castle estate, situated by Torlundy. The lodge is a single-storey building with a small attic, featuring a symmetrical three-bay frontage facing the drive and a gable end facing the road. The construction is of coursed, bull-faced rubble with tooled ashlar detailing. A square, projecting porch with a side entrance obscures the central doorway and is flanked by square-headed windows set within pointed architraves. A single, similar window is in the ground floor and gabled attic of the south-east gable. The wallhead is crenellated on both the porch and the south-western frontage with exaggerated crowsteps. Further details include two-pane glazing and coped wallhead stacks at the north and east ends, topped with slate roofing.
Three square gate piers, constructed of ashlar, support shallow pyramidal caps. Decorative cast- and wrought-iron carriage gates are flanked by matching pedestrian gates. The lodge appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1870.
Local climate
Gate Lodge And Gate Piers, Inverlochy Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 53 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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