The White Lodge, 18 High Street, Fochabers is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. House.

The White Lodge, 18 High Street, Fochabers

WRENN ID
small-attic-storm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1988
Type
House
OS grid reference
NJ 348 586
Coordinates
57.61307, -3.09282
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The White Lodge, located at 18 High Street in Fochabers, is a building constructed between 1848 and 1849, likely designed by William Robertson, and it fronts an earlier school from around 1830. This south-facing, two-storey, three-bay house features a symmetrical facade. The exterior is white harled, with significant use of contrasting tooled ashlar margins and dressings. The central entrance has a pilastered doorpiece and a panelled door, with shallow projecting ashlar corniced bipartites on either side. An ashlar cill course connects three gabled first-floor windows that break the wallhead and are topped with later cast-iron apex finials; these windows have 12-pane glazing. The building has end stacks that are raised in brick and a slate roof with a stone ridge.

The rear wing, dating from around 1830, is a single-storey structure with four bays. It features a deep tooled ashlar basecourse and an eaves band. The east elevation has one window that has been converted into a glazed door, with lying pane glazing.

Inside, the interior reveals a moulded combed ceiling from the former schoolroom, which is partially visible in the much-divided rear wing.

Local climate

The White Lodge, 18 High Street, Fochabers 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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