Westfield Lodge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.

Westfield Lodge

WRENN ID
mired-stone-vale
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 November 1984
OS grid reference
ND 063 641
Coordinates
58.55536, -3.61132
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Westfield Lodge is an 18th-century house, likely built in the mid-to-late 1700s. It is a symmetrical, two-story building with five bays, constructed as a double pile house, meaning it has rooms on both the front and back. A rear section of the house may be a slightly later addition. The front of the house is harled—a rough plaster finish—with ashlar margins, painted and chamfered. A modern sun porch with glass panels now obscures the front door. Windows on the first floor are located in the east and west gables; one window on the west gable is blind, or non-functional. The rear elevation has irregular window placement and longer first-floor windows, with a pair of small, round, blind openings in the center. The windows have 12 panes of glass each. A lean-to porch fronts the rear entrance. The eaves, which are the projecting edge of the roof, have a moulded cornice on both the front and rear. The chimney stacks have been replaced, and the roof is covered with West Highland slate.

To the east side of the main house, running north to south, is a long, two-story range of early 19th-century harled rubble dwellings, now unoccupied. This range is separate from the main house but connected by a short length of garden wall to a small, harled, pyramidal dovecote or poultry house situated in the north garden. The dovecote has a central door at its base and a loft door on the first floor, and its pyramidal roof is completely overgrown with ivy.

Local climate

Westfield Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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