Masonic Lodge, Invergordon Road, Alness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Masonic Hall.
Masonic Lodge, Invergordon Road, Alness
- WRENN ID
- stony-sandstone-cream
- 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
- Masonic Hall
- OS grid reference
- NH 661 694
- Coordinates
- 57.69504, -4.24749
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Masonic Lodge on Invergordon Road in Alness was originally designed as a United Presbyterian Church by Alexander Ross between 1863 and 1864 in Inverness, and it was re-erected in Alness in 1900. The building is in the Decorated Gothic style, constructed from rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. It has a rectangular plan with a projecting porch on the west gable, featuring a moulded recessed entrance, nook shafts, and a cusped head. This porch is flanked by square-headed lancet windows with hoodmoulds. The south and north elevations each have three hoodmoulded traceried windows, separated by alternating buttresses. The east end boasts a very large decorated traceried window, supported by buttresses. Additional decorative elements include ornamental skewputts, a central ridge fleche, apex finials, and a slate roof.
Local climate
Masonic Lodge, Invergordon Road, Alness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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