Lodge, Kirkhill Hotel, Gorebridge is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 May 1999. Lodge.

Lodge, Kirkhill Hotel, Gorebridge

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 May 1999
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
NT 334 620
Coordinates
55.84728, -3.06434
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The lodge at Kirkhill Hotel in Gorebridge, dated 1883, is a single-storey, single-bay building with a rectangular plan. It is constructed from squared and snecked tooled sandstone, featuring stugged dressings that are droved to the margins. The design includes projecting cills, raised margins, chamfered reveals, long and short quoins, and overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards.

The north elevation, which serves as the entrance, is near-symmetrical. It has a gabled porch that projects to the center, featuring a segmental-arched doorway with a replacement panelled timber door and a letterbox fanlight. A tooled panel inscribed "W.J. 1883" (for William Johnston) is set in the gablehead, with a window to the left return. There is also a small window flanking the porch on the left, and a harled 20th-century addition on the right.

The west and south elevations were not seen in 1998. The east elevation is asymmetrical, with a canted three-light window located off-center to the right. The lodge predominantly features two-pane timber windows with top hoppers and has a grey slate roof with a lead ridge. There is a coped, harled ridge stack with a circular can and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The gatepiers are polished, square-plan structures painted white with stop-chamfered angles, featuring a blank frieze with a corniced neck and a ball finial. The boundary includes rubble quadrant walls topped with ashlar coping and surmounted by ironwork railings.

Local climate

Lodge, Kirkhill Hotel, Gorebridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% 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 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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