Description

Circa 1740. Pair of square pilastered gatepiers with urns surmounting and later ornamental wrought-iron gates. Coursed rubble with dressed sandstone ashlar dressings.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: moulded base course, alternate reeded pilasters with polished ashlar banding, projecting architraved neck course with ovolo moulding and egg and dart mouldings to cornice, large stone urn with foliate detailing surmounting.

SE & NW ELEVATION: architraved base course, alternate banding with no ornamentation.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: as NE elevation with less definition and ornamentation.

GATES: segmental-arched framework containing pair of open ironwork gates with oval detail flanked by curled brackets to each centre, and spear tops to dogbars. Ornamental overthrow: large oval flanked by pair of inter-twining curved brackets, further curved brackets with foliate detail and leaf finial surmounting central oval.

Statement of Interest

Part of an A-Group with Preston Hall, Stables, Lion's Gate and Gazebos. Likely to have been one of the entrances for Prestonhall House. A house had been built here in 1700 by Roderick Mackenzie and remodelled in c.1740 by William Adam. It was in a state of disrepair and demolished to make way for Mitchell's design, circa 1790. These gatepiers are older than the other estate buildings, most of which were designed by Mitchell in about 1795. Later, another house (Briery Bank) was sited to the north of Preston Hall and can be clearly seen on the estate plans of 1806. It was large with formal gardens and adjacent buildings and it is likely that this older entrance was utilised as a drive from Briery Bank as a drive leads from the estate, exiting around where this gateway is sited. The gateway now stands alone in woodland adjacent to the B6367.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17569930

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