Morvich Lodge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.
Morvich Lodge
- WRENN ID
- fossil-terrace-dale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NC 754 007
- Coordinates
- 57.97848, -4.1077
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Morvich Lodge is a rambling two-storey house dating from 1812, with later additions. It was originally built as a three-bay front with harled walls and tooled ashlar margins. A square porch with a pointed-headed window and a side entrance obscures the central front door, while a gabled bay extends to the left (south). A wider two-bay southwest-facing front has two substantial later canted bay windows on the ground floor. Some windows in the rear wings extend through the eaves into gablets. The windows are mostly 12-pane sash windows. The roof is slate-covered, with ridge and end stacks. Morvich was built by Lord Stafford as an occasional residence, and subsequently occupied by his factor, Patrick Sellers. James Loch’s “Improvements on The Estates of Lord Stafford” (1820) contains further details (Appendix pp 13-14, p. 15).
Local climate
Morvich Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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