Steading, Gobernuisgach Lodge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.

Steading, Gobernuisgach Lodge

WRENN ID
fading-floor-nettle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
OS grid reference
NC 436 416
Coordinates
58.33551, -4.67217
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Game Larder at Gobernuisgach Lodge is a small shooting lodge built between 1845 and 1846. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with projecting outer bays that create a U-shaped plan, facing southeast and forming a re-entrant court. The building is constructed from grey rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The main entrance, located in the center of the southwest elevation, is currently blocked. There are two doors present under a small lean-to porch against the southeast center bay. Some first-floor windows extend through the wallhead into finialled gablets, while the taller ground-floor windows feature lying-pane glazing with a heavy center mullion. All windows and doorways have drip moulds, and the building includes shaped skewputts, stone ball apex finials, symmetrical ridge stacks with heavy copes, and a slate roof.

The game larder is a small square structure made of rubble, matching the house, with a central door in the northeast elevation. It has a pyramidal slate roof topped with a louvred cupola and features 8-pane gabled dormers on each roof facet.

Additionally, there is a simple single-storey L-plan rubble steading that includes stables, a byre, and a gig-house, all covered by a slate roof.

Local climate

Steading, Gobernuisgach Lodge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 48 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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