West Gate Lodge and Entrance Gates, Balblair House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. 1 related planning application.
West Gate Lodge and Entrance Gates, Balblair House
- WRENN ID
- stony-gutter-spindle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1984
- Address
- West Gate Lodge and Entrance Gates, Balblair House, IV24 3AW
- OS grid reference
- NH 590 940
- Coordinates
- 57.91378, -4.38122
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
East Gate Lodge and Entrance Gates at Balblair House are a pair of mirrored, single-storey gate lodges built in the earlier 19th century. They are constructed with harled walls and feature ashlar dressings. Each lodge has a two-bay south elevation, with the east lodge having blind windows facing the road. The front elevations are bowed and lead to a pair of cast-iron carriage gates. The entrance to the west lodge is located in the rear northeast re-entrant, which has a square porch with a shouldered lintel. The windows have 12-pane glazing, and there are tall, tooled ashlar coped stacks, both single and paired. The lodges have shallow piended slate roofs with projecting eaves supported by paired joists. The east lodge has been gutted and converted into a garage, with doors located in the rear northeast re-entrant.
Local climate
West Gate Lodge and Entrance Gates, Balblair House 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 55 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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- 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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