West Lodge And Gate Piers, Belleville House is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Gate lodge. 2 related planning applications.
West Lodge And Gate Piers, Belleville House
- WRENN ID
- inner-cornice-hawk
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- West Lodge And Gate Piers, Belleville House, PH21 1LU
- OS grid reference
- NH 788 020
- Coordinates
- 57.0931, -4.00051
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Lodge and Gate Piers at Belleville House, designed by Peddie and Kinnear and dated 1865, is a single-storey, asymmetrical L-plan gate lodge. It is constructed of coursed rubble with contrasting tooled long and short ashlar dressings. The lodge features a pedimented pilastered portico topped with an anthemion finial. The wide advanced outer right bay contains a central keystoned Venetian window, with similar windows in the north and south gables, all connected by a continuous cornice raised over the centre lights. The sash windows have either 2- or 4-pane glazing, and the building is adorned with urn apex finials, a coped wallhead, and renewed ridge stacks, all beneath a shallow slate roof.
The gate piers, likely built in 1865, consist of two pairs of square polished ashlar piers with chamfered angles and corniced caps, which are linked to similar end piers by cast-iron railings. Circa 1946, there is a pair of carriage gates and matching flanking pedestrian gates; the carriage gates display the MacPherson crest, while the pedestrian gates feature an inscription.
Local climate
West Lodge And Gate Piers, Belleville House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 86 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 68 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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- Radon risk assessment
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