Gatepiers And Flanking Walls, West Lodge, Kinlochmoidart House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 1980. Gate lodge.

Gatepiers And Flanking Walls, West Lodge, Kinlochmoidart House

WRENN ID
weathered-chimney-aspen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 June 1980
Type
Gate lodge
OS grid reference
NM 711 723
Coordinates
56.78601, -5.74793
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The West Lodge at Kinlochmoidart House is a gate lodge, likely designed by William Leiper around 1884. It is a single-storey building with an attic, arranged in an L-shape. The structure is made of grey rubble with contrasting tooled red sandstone dressings. Notable features include a projecting gabled porch located in the southwest re-entrant angle, and a bipartite window in the west gable set under a relieving arch, which has a decorative oculus above it. The east-facing gable, which opens onto the drive, is canted and has a window at the southeast that features 8-pane glazing. The window and door architraves have roll-mouldings that continue as a pulivated string course detailing at the west gable. The roof has flat skews with kneelers and apex ball finials at the east gable, while gabletted crowstepps are present elsewhere, along with end and ridge stacks, and a slate roof.

The gate piers and flanking walls consist of three squat round rubble piers topped with conical caps and ball finials, which serve both carriage and pedestrian entrances. The flanking quadrants are made of ashlar and are coped, functioning as the garden wall for the gate lodge.

Local climate

Gatepiers And Flanking Walls, West Lodge, Kinlochmoidart House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,280 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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