Blair Castle Front Lodge is a Grade A listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Lodge.

Blair Castle Front Lodge

WRENN ID
first-stone-woodpecker
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
NN 872 654
Coordinates
56.76696, -3.84578
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Blair Castle Front Lodge is a single-storey lodge designed by architect David Bryce and dated 1869. The lodge features boldly designed piers with pulvinated rustication and fine wrought iron gates. The approach is marked by long snecked rubble walls that are terminated by rusticated piers.

Local climate

Blair Castle Front Lodge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 81 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 62 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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