Wester Finlarig is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1986.
Wester Finlarig
- WRENN ID
- watchful-plinth-solstice
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1986
- OS grid reference
- NH 990 256
- Coordinates
- 57.31011, -3.67796
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Wester Finlarig Lodge is a building designed by Balfour Paul (Rowand Anderson, Kininmonth and Paul, Architects, Edinburgh) between 1927 and 1928. It is an asymmetrical two-storey house featuring a main northwest entrance front and garden fronts to the southwest and southeast, all adorned with random grey granite dressings.
The entrance is off-centre and includes a simple flat-headed moulded doorpiece. There is an additional entrance on the southeast garden front, which is located under a loggia or balcony and is flanked by a projecting bay with an ogee roof. The southwest front has three bays, with canted windows in the outer bays on the ground floor. The first-floor windows are set beneath piended bellcast gablets, and the building features multi-pane glazing, ridge stacks, and a local slate roof.
Inside, the entrance lobby leads to an inner stairhall, which contains a polished oak staircase with a simple balustrade and an octagonal newel topped with a carved hare finial. The drawing room and dining room ceilings have plain moulded cornices.
The lodge, likely also designed by Balfour Paul in 1927-28, is a single-storey structure with a symmetrical three-bay southeast front. It is harled with a tooled grey granite centre and a recessed entrance. The windows are multi-pane metal casements, and the building features a granite base course, tall end stacks, and a piended local slate roof.
Local climate
Wester Finlarig sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 51 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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