Lodge, Seaforth Centre is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 July 1991. 1 related planning application.
Lodge, Seaforth Centre
- WRENN ID
- distant-attic-coral
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1991
- Address
- Lodge, Seaforth Centre, IV7 8ED
- OS grid reference
- NH 535 568
- Coordinates
- 57.57764, -4.45087
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lodge, Seaforth Centre
This lodge is part of the Seaforth Sanatorium complex, designed by Robert Macbeth of Ross & Macbeth and built between 1906 and 1908 (with a datestone of 1907). The sanatorium itself was constructed on the butterfly plan, a design that maximised sunshine exposure for the treatment of tuberculosis patients from Ross and Cromarty. The complex was funded by Colonel Stewart Mackenzie of Seaforth and his wife Mary Margaret through a generous endowment.
The lodge is a single-storey building with an attic, arranged symmetrically across three bays with a jerkin roof clad in slate. The main entrance features a two-leaf boarded door with roundels set within an open timber porch. The building is harled with ashlar margins, and contains end stacks and decorative ridging. Small-paned glazing predominates, with sashes at ground-floor level (tripartite arrangements) and casements in the piended dormer windows (bipartite arrangements).
The lodge, presumably part of the original architectural concept, employs the same Scottish 17th-century style detailing found throughout the sanatorium complex. The building has been little altered since its construction and retains its original character and materials.
Local climate
Lodge, Seaforth Centre sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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- 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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