West Lodge, Orton is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. Estate lodge.
West Lodge, Orton
- WRENN ID
- eastward-lime-nightshade
- 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
- Estate lodge
- OS grid reference
- NJ 311 540
- Coordinates
- 57.57101, -3.15307
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Lodge in Orton is a single-storey estate lodge built in 1851 by Thomas Mackenzie. It faces east and features three bays. The building is constructed of rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. The central entrance has a shouldered lintel and a gabled canopied porch supported by a pair of rustic wooden columns. On either side of the entrance are hoodmoulded 2-light windows with 4-pane glazing. The lodge has coped end stacks and a slate roof with projecting eaves and decorative bargeboards.
Local climate
West Lodge, Orton 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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