North Lodges, Megginch Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Castle, lodge.
North Lodges, Megginch Castle
- WRENN ID
- plain-minaret-swallow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Castle, lodge
- OS grid reference
- NO 234 249
- Coordinates
- 56.41042, -3.24167
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
North Lodges at Megginch Castle were built in 1794 and extended in 1933, with the gatepiers relocated in the later 20th century. This pair of single-storey, three-bay gothic lodge houses features crenellated screen walls and is constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings. The windows are ogee-headed, adorned with hoodmoulds, stone mullions, and chamfered reveals.
On the northwest (road) elevations, there is a central carriage entrance flanked by engaged trefoil-section columns and screen walls, each featuring an ogee-headed bipartite window beneath a blind quatrefoil panel. The lower screen walls extend beyond with small gunloops that end in small octagonal ashlar piers and low saddleback-coped quadrants.
The southeast elevations mirror the northwest elevations but lack the lower screen wall extensions. The cottage on the left has a door and window in the lower later bays, while the cottage on the right features a door in a set-back lean-to bay at the outer right.
On the driveway elevations, each lodge has a boarded timber door beneath a consoled stone canopy in the outer bay and a small deep-set bipartite window in the inner bay. The casement windows have a six-pane glazing pattern, while the top-opening windows have a ten-pane glazing pattern, all made of timber. The roofs are covered with grey slates, and there are coped harled stacks, some with cans.
The gatepiers are slender, quatrefoil-section gothic structures topped with a large cornice and tall spired finials.
Local climate
North Lodges, Megginch Castle receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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