Gate Lodge, Castle Leod is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Gate Lodge, Castle Leod
- WRENN ID
- lost-panel-primrose
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 488 587
- Coordinates
- 57.59358, -4.5304
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gate Lodge, built around 1840, is a single-story T-plan lodge situated near Castle Leod. The symmetrical east facade, featuring three bays, faces the entrance to the castle. The lodge is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. The east front has a projecting gabled porch in the centre, featuring a hoodmoulded doorway displaying the Cromartie arms above, as well as finialled skewputts and a similar finial on the apex. Flanking the porch are tripartite windows. A rectangular hoodmoulded bay window is located in the south gable, again displaying the Cromartie arms above. All gable ends are distinguished by exaggerated finialled skewputts and apex finials. The window glazing is unusual, consisting of small hexagonal panes, most of which remain intact. A rear wing has an end stack, and the roof is covered with shallow pitched slate.
A pair of plain, square, rusticated gate piers with shallow ashlar pyramidal caps support a pair of cast-iron carriage gates featuring spearhead detailing.
Local climate
Gate Lodge, Castle Leod sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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