Lodge, East Drive, Dochfour House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Lodge, East Drive, Dochfour House
- WRENN ID
- vast-corridor-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 614 398
- Coordinates
- 57.42801, -4.30992
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The estate lodge, entrance gate piers and gates, and policy walls date from around 1840. The entrance is marked by a pair of square, rusticated ashlar piers topped with cornices and ball finials, linked by a low retaining wall to matching end piers. A pair of spearhead cast-iron carriage gates complete the entrance.
The gate lodge is a simple, mid-19th century, single-storey, three-bay cottage with a single-bay addition slightly set back at the west gable. It is harled with painted, tooled ashlar margins. The central door has a double-leaf plank door, and features four-pane glazing. The lodge has coped end stacks and a slate roof with projecting eaves.
Also part of the estate are mid-19th century coped retaining walls, with various entrances. One entrance serves the Dochfour nursery garden at Kirkton and features a pair of square, tooled rubble piers with ashlar caps and ball finials, connected to similar end piers by stepped quadrants. A pair of wrought-iron carriage gates are present here.
Local climate
Lodge, East Drive, Dochfour House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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