Gate Lodge, Whim House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Lodge.
Gate Lodge, Whim House
- WRENN ID
- slow-ashlar-lake
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1971
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- NT 214 533
- Coordinates
- 55.76687, -3.2532
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gate Lodge at Whim House dates from the late 18th century and features coursed stonework. It has two rectangular upper windows and a piended roof with moulded stone eaves. The ground floor includes a central alcove flanked by triple windows. The building is rectangular in shape, and there is a modern pentice addition at the rear.
Local climate
Gate Lodge, Whim House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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