Gate Lodge, Boleskine House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. Gate lodge. 3 related planning applications.

Gate Lodge, Boleskine House

WRENN ID
ragged-rampart-frost
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 April 1986
Type
Gate lodge
Address
Gate Lodge, Boleskine House, IV2 6XT
OS grid reference
NH 508 222
Coordinates
57.26655, -4.47418
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Gate Lodge at Boleskine House is an earlier 19th century single-storey building with three bays, facing northwest. It is constructed from coursed mixed rubble, featuring contrasting painted tooled margins. The central door is set in a shallow canted recess and is flanked by narrow sidelights and casement windows. Above the door, there is a projecting three-sided shallow piended canopy supported by four slender painted cast-iron columns. Each return gable has a single casement window, also in a shallow canted recess, and there is a small window at the center of the rear. All windows, including the casements and sashes, have horizontal glazing and tooled ashlar sandstone angles. The building has a stumpy off-centre stack and a shallow piended slate roof with projecting eaves.

The gate piers and gates date from the early to mid-19th century and consist of a pair of decorative lattice work cast-iron square gate piers topped with shallow pyramidal caps. There is a matching pair of cast-iron carriage gates featuring decorative spearhead detailing, along with flanking spearhead railings on a low coped retaining wall.

Local climate

Gate Lodge, Boleskine House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 66 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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