West Lodge, Highfield House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Gate lodge.
West Lodge, Highfield House
- WRENN ID
- inner-mullion-bistre
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Gate lodge
- OS grid reference
- NH 513 515
- Coordinates
- 57.52999, -4.48482
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Lodge, Highfield House, is a single-storey, L-plan Italianate gate lodge dated 1874, with a later extension to the north. The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings. At the southwest re-entrant angle, there is a semi-circular portico supported by two engaged and four fluted Ionic columns. The lodge features a moulded cornice with a central semi-circular pediment that includes an initialled shield and the date; there is a single window on each inner face of the portico. The south and west gables have key-stoned Venetian windows with original casements, although the glazing is modern. The roof has a corniced ridge and end stacks, with projecting and barge-boarded eaves, and is finished with a shallow slate covering.
Local climate
West Lodge, Highfield House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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