West Lodges, Gordon Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Castle lodge.
West Lodges, Gordon Castle
- WRENN ID
- ghost-pavement-stoat
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Castle lodge
- OS grid reference
- NJ 342 590
- Coordinates
- 57.61688, -3.10152
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Lodges at Gordon Castle were designed by John Baxter between 1791 and 1792. The structure features an entrance arch and crenellated screen walls, along with flanking lodges that have modern additions at the rear. The building is constructed from tooled ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, and the rear has harled additions.
The tall central crenellated triumphal arch connects to single-storey, single-bay lodges through a screen wall. Each lodge has a single pedestrian entrance on either side of the main entrance, and each lodge features a single window set in a shallow round-headed panel.
At the rear, square single-bay mirrored lodges project, each with an entrance facing the driveway and a set-back crenellated elevation that includes an additional entrance leading to the modern rear additions. The original doors and windows are set in shallow round-headed panels with 12-pane glazing. The rear features coped wallhead stacks, and the shallow piended roofs are concealed by crenellated wallheads, while the modern additions have slate roofs.
Local climate
West Lodges, 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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