Birchfield Lodge is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. Gate lodge.
Birchfield Lodge
- WRENN ID
- calm-courtyard-magpie
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- Type
- Gate lodge
- OS grid reference
- NJ 255 522
- Coordinates
- 57.55442, -3.24561
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Birchfield Lodge is a gate lodge built around 1870, possibly designed by Alexander Ross from Inverness. It is a single-storey building with an attic and features an asymmetrical two-bay gabled design. The structure is made of sneck coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings.
The entrance is segmental-headed and located under a gablet on the right, flanked by narrow lights. To the left, there is a slightly advanced gabled bay that includes a canted projecting window on the ground floor, topped with a piended slated roof that has brattishing. The first floor features a bipartite window, while the return elevation has a tripartite window. The glazing consists of 2- and 4-pane windows.
Additional architectural details include a coped centre ridge stack, apex turned wooden finials, and a slate roof with eaves.
Local climate
Birchfield Lodge 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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