Dounduff Lodge, Darnaway Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. Gate lodge.
Dounduff Lodge, Darnaway Castle
- WRENN ID
- south-brass-mallow
- 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
- NH 993 502
- Coordinates
- 57.53149, -3.68321
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dounduff Lodge, located at Darnaway Castle, was designed by A & W Reid in 1873. This asymmetrical, gabled, two-storey gate lodge features a three-bay west-facing elevation that faces the road. The building is constructed of tooled rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. Near the center, there is an entrance with a plank door that has ornamental cast-iron hinges. To the left of the entrance, there is an advanced gabled bay with a tripartite window on the ground floor, featuring two-pane glazing. The lodge is topped with paired ridge and end tall coped octagonal stacks, flat skews with shaped skewputts, and apex finials, all under a steeply pitched slate roof.
Local climate
Dounduff Lodge, Darnaway Castle 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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