Flagstaff Lodge, Dunrobin Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979.

Flagstaff Lodge, Dunrobin Castle

WRENN ID
waiting-loft-woodpecker
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 December 1979
OS grid reference
NC 843 006
Coordinates
57.9799, -3.95723
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Flagstaff Lodge, at Dunrobin Castle, is an imposing entrance lodge complex dating from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of tooled coursed rubble with polished ashlar dressings. The main element is a large, two-storey drum tower dwelling, topped with a deep, corbelled, and crenellated parapet, and a wallhead stack. A single-storey, single-bay extension with a shallow piended roof is linked to the tower by a rear entrance porch. A similar single-stage drum tower stands opposite the drive entrance. Four round ashlar gate piers, set on square bases with square caps and attenuated polished red granite ball finials, stand between the towers. The carriage gates, and matching pedestrian gates, are cast iron with spearhead decoration. Coursed rubble flanking walls are topped with shaped ashlar copes.

Local climate

Flagstaff Lodge, Dunrobin Castle receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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