The Lodge And Gateway, Thurso Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Gate lodge.
The Lodge And Gateway, Thurso Castle
- WRENN ID
- white-lancet-peregrine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Gate lodge
- OS grid reference
- ND 124 685
- Coordinates
- 58.59626, -3.50778
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lodge and Gateway at Thurso Castle, possibly designed by architect Donald Leed between 1870 and 1880, features an exaggerated baronial arched gateway that connects to a square gate lodge via a crenellated wall. The structure is built from sneck coursed rubble with ashlar dressings.
The lodge is a square, two-storey, two-bay dwelling with a square angle turret that projects at the southeast corner, rising one storey above the wallhead. It has corbelled and crenellated wallheads, along with corbelled and crenellated angle bartizans that conceal flues. The extensive cable moulding decoration includes angle margins, and the window lintels are adorned with dogtooth decoration, featuring two-pane glazing.
A modern sun parlour has been added to the south elevation at ground floor level, rendered and lined to resemble ashlar, with a crenellated wallhead leading to a flat roof.
The gateway mirrors the lodge's style, showcasing a cusped high round-headed arch flanked by buttresses, with a corbelled and crenellated wallhead and corbelled and crenellated angle bartizans. The quadrants are coped rubble, with terminal end piers designed as bartizans.
Local climate
The Lodge And Gateway, Thurso Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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