Gate Lodge, Guisachan House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Gate Lodge, Guisachan House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-quartz-onyx
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 290 255
- Coordinates
- 57.28808, -4.83741
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a gate lodge, built in 1855 by A & W Reid, originally serving Guisachan House, which is now a ruin. It is a single-storey building with an attic, and three bays facing southeast. The lodge is constructed of grey rubble with contrasting tooled red ashlar dressings, and a harl-pointed wing to the rear. A central entrance is set within an advanced porch, featuring a shouldered lintel, and is flanked by small windows. A canted bay window is located on the ground floor of the northeast gable, with a first-floor window positioned above. Similar ground and first-floor windows are also present in the southwest return gable. Some lattice pane glazing remains. The roof is slate-covered, and features decorative bargeboards with apex finials and pendants, along with a rear ridge stack. A modern box dormer has been added to the rear wing. Records relating to the lodge can be found at Moray District Record Office in Forres, reference DAWP 815/2-3.
Local climate
Gate Lodge, Guisachan House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 58 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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