Gate Lodge, Kindeace House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Gate Lodge, Kindeace House
- WRENN ID
- other-obsidian-vale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NH 729 731
- Coordinates
- 57.7303, -4.13482
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a gate lodge, built around 1869 in the style of Alexander Ross. It is a single-story building with three bays, featuring a gabled projecting central open porch. The lodge is constructed of coursed rubble masonry with tooled dressings. A canted bay window is present, topped with a crenellated parapet on the south gable; the north gable features a bipartite window. Other decorative features include gabletted crowsteps, ball finials, a corniced ridge stack, and a slate roof. A rear extension is also present.
The entrance is marked by two pairs of square, tooled ashlar gate piers, which have wide, stopped chamfers and quatrefoil decoration. The central pair of piers are topped with eagle owl terminals. Low, coped quadrants of stugged coursed rubble extend from the piers, with their end piers echoing the detailing of the gate piers themselves. Elaborate cast-iron railings, along with separate pedestrian and carriage gates, complete the arrangement.
Local climate
Gate Lodge, Kindeace House 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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