Gate Lodge, Drummuir Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. Gate lodge.

Gate Lodge, Drummuir Castle

WRENN ID
vast-chancel-ivory
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1988
Type
Gate lodge
OS grid reference
NJ 376 443
Coordinates
57.48538, -3.04225
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Gate Lodge at Drummuir Castle, possibly designed by Alexander Reid in 1897, is an asymmetrical single-storey castellated structure featuring a two-stage tower. It is situated on an island site surrounded by a road and two arms of the entrance drive. The building is constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The entrance is located on the north elevation, which overlooks one arm of the driveway. At the northeast angle, there is a two-stage octagonal tower with a corbelled and crenellated wallhead. The west front has two bays and includes a projecting canted window, along with a modern single-storey, single-bay addition at the southwest. The windows feature two- and four-pane glazing, and the wallheads are crenellated and corbelled with cable moulding. The roof is piended and covered with slate. The lodge is enclosed by low coped rubble walls and cast-iron spearhead railings.

At one arm of the drive, there are paired gatepiers with flanking pedestrian piers, made of ashlar and topped with substantial pyramidal caps. There are no gates present.

Local climate

Gate Lodge, Drummuir Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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