Catlodge Lodge is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. 2 related planning applications.
Catlodge Lodge
- WRENN ID
- gentle-merlon-root
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- Address
- Catlodge Lodge, PH20 1BT
- OS grid reference
- NN 633 928
- Coordinates
- 57.00674, -4.25196
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Catlodge Lodge is an early 19th-century, two-storey house facing the northeast, originally with three wide bays. A central bay projects forward and has a gable. Later extensions were added to the rear and at a right angle to the northwest gable. The main part of the house is built from grey granite rubble with dressed granite ashlar detailing, while the additions are of rubble construction.
The main entrance is within a painted timber doorpiece featuring pilasters and a cornice, and it incorporates a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight containing decorative glazing. Above the entrance is a pointed-headed window with intersecting astragals. Canted bay windows are present on the ground floor, and the outer first-floor windows rise through the wallhead and are set beneath boarded gablets. The windows generally have 12 panes of glass, with lying-pane glazing within the canted bays. The extensions to the sides have varied window styles and glazing patterns. The roof is slated, with projecting eaves, and has coped end stacks.
Inside, a staircase has slender cast-iron balusters decorated with palmette detailing. The property is approached by a pair of square, tooled granite gate piers, each surmounted by a cast concrete cat, which represents the crest of the MacPherson family. A drystone rubble wall, roughly coped, runs alongside.
A two-chambered privy survives in the garden behind the house. The lodge lies within the Cairngorms National Park.
Local climate
Catlodge Lodge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 83 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 66 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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