West Lodge, Coul 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, Coul House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-rubble-cedar
- 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 458 561
- Coordinates
- 57.56894, -4.57978
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Lodge at Coul House is a single-storey gate lodge, likely built around 1821, featuring a shallow cruciform plan. The exterior is harled with ashlar margins. On the east gable, which faces the drive and entrance, there is a canted bay with wide ashlar margins and a window on each side. The south elevation has a shallow projecting off-centre bay, along with another shallow projection that contains a bipartite window. There are two additional bipartite windows on the west side, all of which appear to be later enlargements. The rear entrance has a re-entrant design and is covered by a modern canopy. To the northwest, there is a weather-boarded extension with mainly 4-pane glazing, ridge stacks, and a shallow piended slate roof.
Local climate
West Lodge, Coul House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 48 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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