South Lodge, Castle Grant is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Gate lodge.
South Lodge, Castle Grant
- WRENN ID
- gilded-kitchen-plum
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Gate lodge
- OS grid reference
- NJ 035 288
- Coordinates
- 57.33979, -3.60439
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
South Lodge at Castle Grant is a baronial-style gate lodge built in the later 19th century. It is two stories high and constructed of square tooled granite with a rubble rear and tooled granite ashlar dressings. The building has asymmetrical two-bay fronts facing south and east, which face the road and the drive respectively. A drum tower rises from a facetted base at the southeast angle, flanking the left gate pier. The entrance to the lodge is located at the angle with the tower and the east front, and it is masked by a shallow gabled and crow-stepped porch that features a monogram above the lintel.
The drum tower displays a coat of arms on the first floor and is lit by slit vents. It terminates with a slated conical roof topped by a cast-iron finial. The dwelling has a corbelled parapet and square angle bartizans. The windows feature 12-pane glazing, and the building has coped end stacks and slate roofs.
The gate piers consist of a simple pair of granite piers, although no gates survive. The right gate pier is flanked by a stumpy crenellated octagon that imitates the base of the lodge's angle tower. This is connected to a low coped and buttressed retaining wall that encloses a wide approach area from the main road, with interval piers that have pyramidal caps.
Local climate
South Lodge, Castle Grant 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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