Priory Lodge, Pluscarden Abbey is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. 1 related planning application.
Priory Lodge, Pluscarden Abbey
- WRENN ID
- shifting-cellar-azure
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Address
- Priory Lodge, Pluscarden Abbey, IV30 8TZ
- OS grid reference
- NJ 144 575
- Coordinates
- 57.59956, -3.43302
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Priory Lodge, built in 1820-21 by James McBride, serves as a lodge associated with Pluscarden Abbey. It was originally a cruciform design, a single-story building with a dormerless attic and three bays. The construction utilizes coursed rubble with ashlar dressings.
The west front features a projecting, crowstepped and gabled porch. This porch has a pointed hoodmoulded door and a pointed, latticed, glazed fanlight, with a blind trefoil above. Flanking the porch are pointed arched windows with hoodmoulds and gothic glazing. A similar window is located at the center of the east gable, and another is present in the center of the south gable in the attic. The gables are crowstepped, terminating in stone crosses, and a central ridge displays a battery of three diamond stacks. The roof is covered with West Highland slate and has a stone ridge. A matching extension was added to the northeast corner around 1984.
The Earl of Fife purchased Pluscarden in 1821 and built the lodge shortly thereafter.
Local climate
Priory Lodge, Pluscarden Abbey 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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