Gate Lodge, Forse House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. 2 related planning applications.
Gate Lodge, Forse House
- WRENN ID
- lone-foundation-reed
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Address
- Gate Lodge, Forse House, KW5 6DG
- OS grid reference
- ND 214 342
- Coordinates
- 58.29025, -3.3421
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an 1853 gate lodge located at Forse House. It is an asymmetrical two-story building constructed from coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. A projecting gable is present on the southeast bay, incorporating a gabled porch that rises the full height of the building in the corner. The entrance is topped by a depressed arch with facetted jambs, the details of which are blocked at the imposts; decorative detailing is visible in the spandrels. The entrance has a studded panelled door, and a plaque is positioned above the door, bearing a carved Sutherland cat and the initials GS (George Sutherland) and MS.
A gabled bay on the west side features a canted bay window on the ground floor, with crenellation above. Hoodmoulds are present above the ground floor windows, and the windows contain two panes of glazing. The building has simple bargeboards and a central ridge stack rising from a slate roof.
The gate is defined by a pair of square, tooled ashlar gate piers with chamfered angles and shallow moulded pyramidal caps. Low, coped quadrants support spearhead cast-iron railings and matching terminal piers.
Local climate
Gate Lodge, Forse House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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