West Lodge, Dunachton is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. Gate lodge.
West Lodge, Dunachton
- WRENN ID
- open-rotunda-grain
- 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
- Type
- Gate lodge
- OS grid reference
- NH 822 044
- Coordinates
- 57.11588, -3.94692
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Lodge in Dunachton is a single-storey cruciform gate lodge built around 1869, likely designed by John Rhind. The structure is made of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. It features a crowstepped entrance porch with a round-headed doorway located in the southwest re-entrant angle. The south and west gables have tripartite windows, each with a central square light above the transom and small square lights in the canted angles. The windows have horizontal glazing. The gables are crowstepped and finialled, and the building has a coped ridge and end stacks, topped with a Banffshire slate roof. To the right of the entrance porch, there is a mural plaque with a cat carved in low relief.
Local climate
West Lodge, Dunachton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 85 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 67 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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