Inchrory Lodge, Tomintoul | Restoration Case Study

Our role: Contractor
Client: Private client (estate)
Engineer: LTM Consultancy (mortar specification)

Inchrory Lodge is an extended 19th-century shooting lodge on the edge of the Cairngorms, within a Site of Special Scientific Interest. We carried out remedial repairs to its rubble masonry, including full repointing of the main lodge.

Before & after

Drag across the image to compare the building before our work and after completion.

Inchrory Lodge after restoration by LTM Group

BeforeAfter

The challenge

The lodge was originally harled and limewashed, but these coatings had been stripped, leaving the rubble walls exposed. The owners wanted the walls pointed rather than re-harled, so the pointing itself had to keep the weather out. Large voids were also found deep behind the earlier pointing.

Our solution

We finished the pointing flush with the rubble rather than recessed, to shed water. LTM Consultancy assessed the performance needed and analysed the original mortars, specifying a hot lime mix gauged with natural hydraulic lime. Deep voids were packed and filled to stop water penetrating the walls.

Outcomes

Weatherproof without harl

Flush pointing in a designed hot lime mortar protects exposed rubble walls.

Hidden defects fixed

Deep voids found behind old pointing were packed and filled.

Evidence-led specification

Mortar analysis guided the repair mix.

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