Lodge, Leys Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.
Lodge, Leys Castle
- WRENN ID
- tilted-threshold-evening
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- OS grid reference
- NH 677 408
- Coordinates
- 57.43864, -4.20404
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a single-storey lodge, likely dating from 1833. It has an irregular plan and was probably built as an entrance lodge to Leys Castle, also dated 1833. The lodge is constructed of whitewashed rubble with dressings of self-coloured tooled ashlar. The NW front is symmetrical with three bays, featuring a projecting, canted porch in the centre and canted gables. Side lights are positioned on either side of the entrance. Windows and doorways are topped with four-centred arched heads. Pairs of shafts are linked by coping to central ridge stacks. The roof is finished in facetted piended slate. A similar porch is located on the irregular SW elevation, which connects to a rear wing. Later piended dormers break the wallhead of the rear wing. The lodge has mainly four-pane glazing and varied ridge stacks, all under slate roofs.
Local climate
Lodge, Leys Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 47 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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