West Lodge, Aberlour House is a Grade A listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. Gate lodge.
West Lodge, Aberlour House
- WRENN ID
- dark-lantern-dawn
- Grade
- A
- 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
- NJ 274 435
- Coordinates
- 57.47619, -3.21095
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Lodge at Aberlour House was designed by A and W Reid in 1856 and features an Italianate style. This two-storey lodge has an asymmetrical three-bay entrance front. The exterior is harled, with tooled and polished ashlar dressings and margins.
The entrance is gabled and pilastered, located in the outer single-storey bay on the southwest side, which also includes a canted single-storey balustraded window to the left. Above this, there is a round-headed bipartite window with blocked imposts on the first floor. At the northwest angle, a three-stage tower is defined by giant angle pilaster strips with ashlar margins, featuring round-headed keystoned arched windows on each face at the third floor. The ground and first floors are lit by corniced lancet windows, and the lodge has a shallow pyramidal slate roof with an apex finial and bracketed eaves. There is also a rectangular projecting window with similar detailing to the front, located within the re-entrant angle of the tower facing north towards the road. The windows have lying-pane glazing, and there is a coped wallhead stack.
The late 19th-century gatepiers and gates consist of a pair of tall rusticated ashlar piers with egg and dart detailing at the base of the cornice, topped with attenuated swagged finials and fluted urn bases. The entrance features a pair of ornate cast and wrought-iron carriage gates, along with flanking cast-iron spearhead railings that incorporate a pedestrian entrance with a decorative overthrow. A simple terminal pier is located to the west.
Local climate
West Lodge, Aberlour House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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