Quarry Gardens Lodge, Gordon Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Gate lodge. 5 related planning applications.

Quarry Gardens Lodge, Gordon Castle

WRENN ID
heavy-stronghold-mist
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 January 1971
Type
Gate lodge
Address
Quarry Gardens Lodge, Gordon Castle, IV32 7PQ
OS grid reference
NJ 355 602
Coordinates
57.62759, -3.08091
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Quarry Gardens Lodge, located at Gordon Castle, was designed by William Robertson in 1825. This two-storey gate lodge faces west towards the former driveway and features a tooled ashlar front with harled flanks.

The lodge has a canted west front with a central entrance that is sheltered by a single-storey gabled timber porch, which dates from around 1900 and includes a side entrance. The main doorway within the porch has a rectangular fanlight with radial glazing. Long windows light the flanking sides, each set within shallow round-headed recesses, while the smaller first-floor windows are blind on the outer faces.

The lodge has regular two-bay long north and south elevations, with taller ground floor windows and a secondary side entrance on the north elevation. The windows feature 9- and 12-pane glazing, and there is a deep ashlar base course. The wallhead is bracketted, corniced, and crenellated, with a coped centre ridge stack and a shallow piended slate roof. At the rear, there is a modern single-storey harled lean-to.

Inside, the lodge includes a narrow curved staircase with slender wooden balusters and panelled window shutters.

Local climate

Quarry Gardens Lodge, Gordon 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 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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