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

Dovecote, Westfield Lodge

WRENN ID
quartered-lead-dawn
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
58.5556, -3.61144
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a mid- to late 18th-century house, originally symmetrical in design with five bays and two storeys. It is a double pile building, meaning it has two rows of rooms. The front is harled (roughcast) with ashlar (dressed stone) margins, painted and chamfered on the south side. A modern glazed sunporch now masks the central doorway. Windows on the first floor are found in the east and west gables, with one window blind (non-functional) on the west side. The rear elevation has irregular window placement and longer first-floor windows, featuring paired small, blind oculi (round windows) in the centre. The windows are fitted with 12 panes of glass. A lean-to porch fronts the rear entrance. The building has a cavetto moulded eaves cornice (a decorative moulding) on both the front and rear, renewed end chimneys, and a West Highland slate roof.

Attached to the east side of the house is a long, two-storey early 19th-century range of harled rubble dwellings, currently unoccupied. This range runs north/south and is detached from the main house. A short section of garden wall connects the dwellings to a small, harled pyramidal dovecote/poultry house located in the north garden. The dovecote has a central door at its base and a loft door on the first floor, with a pyramidal roof completely covered in ivy.

Local climate

Dovecote, 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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