East Lodge, Highfield House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Lodge.
East Lodge, Highfield House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-fireplace-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- NH 525 515
- Coordinates
- 57.52962, -4.46488
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
East Lodge at Highfield House is a gate lodge dated 1867. It features a picturesque T-plan design and is a single-storey structure with a projecting wing at the center of the south elevation. The south face has a gabled entrance, while the east face includes a window in the re-entrant angle. The gables are adorned with 16-pane sash windows that have crests above them. The lodge has a central ridge flue battery, decorative barge-boards, and apex finials, all under steeply pitched slate roofs. Ornate cast-iron ridge cresting adds to its decorative appeal.
The entrance is marked by gate piers, gates, and railings. The gate piers are square, chamfered, and made of rusticated ashlar, featuring moulded copes and shallow pyramidal caps, with similar end piers. There are secondary carriage entrances flanked by decorative cast-iron piers, with double gates leading to the central entrance and single gates for the secondary entrances. These are linked by matching spearhead railings on a low coped wall.
Local climate
East Lodge, Highfield House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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