Lodge, Ross Priory is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1980. 3 related planning applications.
Lodge, Ross Priory
- WRENN ID
- turning-stronghold-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1980
- Address
- Lodge, Ross Priory, G83 8NQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 421 870
- Coordinates
- 56.05021, -4.53582
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a lodge, built around 1810 by J Gillespie Graham, and later expanded. Originally a single-story, rectangular building in the Gothic style, it now includes a rear wing and side additions. The lodge is constructed from ashlar stone with ashlar details; later additions are rendered. A base course and decorative hoodmoulds are present.
The south-west elevation features a central, open-sided porch with a piend roof and four-centred arches supported by clustered colonnettes. It has a painted studded door. Flanking the porch are pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds. A modern pebble-dashed extension is located to the outer right. A window is centrally positioned on the north-west elevation. Later additions have been made to the rear and north-east.
The lodge has four-pane, cusped-headed windows and a grey slate roof with lead flashings. It features rendered, coped ridge stacks with circular cans.
The boundary wall is constructed from squared sandstone with saddleback coping. Circular column gatepiers with depressed pyramidal caps stand at the vehicular and flanking pedestrian gates. The main columns of the gatepiers have been completely replaced; the shafts of the pedestrian column have also been replaced. Cast-iron hood railings, replacements made in 1995, run along the boundary.
The lodge serves as the entrance building for Ross Priory. The priory itself, along with the stables and Buchanan graveyard, are included as separate listed buildings. References to the lodge and its setting can be found in F A Walker and F Sinclair’s North Clyde Estuary (1992), and in An Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Vol 2.
Local climate
Lodge, Ross Priory sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,630 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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