Achnashellach Lodge is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. 1 related planning application.
Achnashellach Lodge
- WRENN ID
- solemn-balcony-ivy
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Address
- Achnashellach Lodge, IV54 8YU
- OS grid reference
- NH 002 481
- Coordinates
- 57.47972, -5.33416
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Achnashellach Lodge is a two-story shooting lodge dating to around 1870. It has an asymmetrical, rambling design and a three-bay frontage facing south. The entrance is located on the west side, sheltered by a gabled porte cochere that supports a gabled bay containing a first-floor room above. The lodge is constructed from coursed grey rubble with contrasting tooled red sandstone dressings. The south frontage is asymmetrical, with a recessed central bay linked by a first-floor balcony featuring a cast-iron balustrade. It includes canted bay windows at ground floor level on both the left (west) and right sides, extending the full height of the building. Small, dormer windows are present, and a long extension runs along the rear (north) with swept dormers. Windows have 3, 4, and 6 panes of glass. Some gables are jerkin-headed. Corniced end and wallhead stacks rise from the roof, which is covered in slate.
Inside, a wide staircase is notable for its decorative cast-iron balustrade. The lodge was depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1877 and was referred to in 1884 as a shooting lodge owned by Ivor Bertie-Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne.
Local climate
Achnashellach Lodge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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