Lodge And Gates, Methlan Park House, Dumbarton is a Grade C listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 January 1984. Lodge.
Lodge And Gates, Methlan Park House, Dumbarton
- WRENN ID
- tattered-window-nightshade
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- NS 390 748
- Coordinates
- 55.93971, -4.57836
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The lodge and gates at Methlan Park House in Dumbarton were designed by architect John Macleod and constructed between 1880 and 1881. This single-storey lodge is built in an L-plan configuration, featuring a porch in the re-entrant angle and a single window to the right. The north elevation includes a bowed 3-light window in the advanced left bay. The exterior is made of coursed, stugged ashlar with polished dressings and rusticated quoins. There are two windows on the east elevation, and the building has an eaves course and a piended slate roof with projecting eaves that curve over the bowed window.
The entrance is marked by three square gatepiers, each topped with a bracketed cornice and a decorative cap. Low quadrant walls, with the southern wall curved and stepped to follow the slope, connect to lower terminal piers. All elements are finished in painted ashlar, and the property features decorative wrought-iron gates.
Local climate
Lodge And Gates, Methlan Park House, Dumbarton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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