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Latitude: 58.3751 / 58°22'30"N
Longitude: -3.6923 / 3°41'32"W
OS Eastings: 301119
OS Northings: 944205
OS Grid: ND011442
Mapcode National: GBR K67L.KCB
Mapcode Global: WH5CF.8R0G
Plus Code: 9CCR98G5+23
Entry Name: Lochdhu Lodge
Listing Name: Lochdhu Lodge
Listing Date: 28 November 1984
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 339784
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7802
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200339784
Location: Halkirk
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Parish: Halkirk
Traditional County: Caithness
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1895. Possibly Donald Leed, architect, Thurso. 2-storey
asymmetrical gabled shooting lodge with Baronial detailing.
Coursed rubble, contrasting polished ashlar dressings.
Main elevations to south (with pronounced battered plinth)
and west. South elevation with off-centre entrance into
gabled and advanced bay; projecting window at SE angle with
heavy cable-moulded centre mullion supporting corbelled 1st
floor angle bartizan with blind cruciform slit, corbelled
upper course and conical roof with cast-iron weather-vane.
4-storey octagonal tower at SW angle, housing staircase in 1st
and 2nd floors, large windows in 5 sides to 3 lower storeys;
corbelled upper storey of tower, with gabletted windows and
facetted conical roof outlined with cast-iron thistle cresting.
Windows in main elevations have cable-moulded carved detailing
to architraves; some windows break wallhead in bargeboarded
gablets; 2-pane glazing. Corniced ridge and end stacks;
fish-scale slate roof in contrasting zig-zag bands; tiled
ridge. Some modern additions to lower rear service range.
Built by Sir Tollemache Sinclair of Ulbster.
Donald Leed, Architect and Clerk of Works to Ulbster Estates "superintended various lodges and houses". 13.3.1903.
Cable-moulded detailing very similar to that on Thurso Castle
(Sinclair of Ulbster of 1872-78.
Railway, which passes within a mile, established in 1873, and
would have provided transport for building materials.
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