West Lodge, Beaufort Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.

West Lodge, Beaufort Castle

WRENN ID
muted-plaster-amber
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 April 1986
OS grid reference
NH 496 422
Coordinates
57.44519, -4.50712
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

West Lodge at Beaufort Castle is an earlier 19th-century cottage, likely altered in the later 19th century. It is a single-story building with an attic, featuring three bays facing south. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble, with dressings of tooled and polished ashlar. The central door is framed by a pointed architraves, slender nook shafts, and a hood mould. Flanking windows originally had four panes of glass, but these are likely later enlargements. The roof is slate, with projecting eaves and cope stacks. The attic space is lit by later 19th-century gabletted domes with simple six-pane, pointed-headed glazing.

Local climate

West Lodge, Beaufort Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 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 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 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 0.3°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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