Westgarty Lodge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1977.
Westgarty Lodge
- WRENN ID
- keen-ledge-merlin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1977
- OS grid reference
- NC 988 124
- Coordinates
- 58.08936, -3.71671
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Westgarty Lodge is a two-storey, five-bay house dated 1863, incorporating a late 18th/early 19th century core. The main house features a central doorway obscured by a two-storey drum tower with a conical roof and a side entrance. The exterior is all harled. Later additions are slightly set back, with paired ground floor windows. The centre of the drum tower has ground and first-floor windows, and four first-floor windows rise through the wallhead in barge-boarded gablets. The windows are fitted with 12-pane glazing. End and ridge stacks are corniced, and the roof is slate. A wing extends to the rear.
The interior has been significantly altered, but retains an Adamesque chimney piece in the ground floor drawing room. This chimney piece was brought from Hampshire by the current owners during the 1970s and is believed to be by one of the Adam brothers, with a signature on the rear.
A coped dry stone garden wall surrounds the property, incorporating four bee boles in the rear section. A small Grosvenor crest is positioned above the front door; it was fitted during the Grosvenor family's ownership in the mid-20th century. A parliamentary road constructed in 1810 ran through the grounds, and a small bridge from that date is located close to the house.
Local climate
Westgarty Lodge 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 lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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