Benmore Lodge And Gates, Younger Botanic Garden, Benmore House is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 October 1984. Lodge. 2 related planning applications.
Benmore Lodge And Gates, Younger Botanic Garden, Benmore House
- WRENN ID
- silver-spandrel-indigo
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Benmore Lodge And Gates, Younger Botanic Garden, Benmore House, PA23 8QU
- OS grid reference
- NS 143 855
- Coordinates
- 56.02705, -4.98085
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Benmore Lodge, built around 1874, is located within the Younger Botanic Garden at Benmore House, following significant estate improvements by James Duncan. It is likely designed by architect David Thomson. The lodge, while simple in design, shares stylistic elements with the main house.
This 1½-storey lodge features a Baronial style and has a roughly L-shaped layout, with two gables positioned at right angles at the entrance. The crow-stepped gables are the building's most prominent feature, framed by a stepped corbel-table that outlines the upper floor windows. Each gable includes a hood-moulded bipartite window on the ground floor. The entrance elevation, facing the drive, has a gable on the right, a central door, and a bipartite window to the left, topped by a crow-stepped gablet. Access is through ornate wrought iron gates, flanked by hand-gates and tall railings set on ashlar quadrant dwarf walls. A small George V letter box is attached to the railings.
Currently, the lodge serves as a shop for the Botanic Gardens, and its interior has been modified to suit this purpose. The building is constructed of squared rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. It predominantly has plate glass timber sash and case windows.
Local climate
Benmore Lodge And Gates, Younger Botanic Garden, Benmore House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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