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Latitude: 55.9171 / 55°55'1"N
Longitude: -3.3211 / 3°19'15"W
OS Eastings: 317529
OS Northings: 670120
OS Grid: NT175701
Mapcode National: GBR 5070.SQ
Mapcode Global: WH6SQ.YJPR
Plus Code: 9C7RWM8H+RH
Entry Name: North Gate Lodge, Riccarton Estate, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Heriot Watt University, Riccarton Estate, North Gate Lodge, Gatepiers and Screen Walls
Listing Date: 13 January 1975
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364514
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27369
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Heriot Watt University, Riccarton Estate, North Gate Lodge
ID on this website: 200364514
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: University building
Style of William Burn and David Bryce, earlier 19th century. Single storey, gabled T-plan lodge with Jacobethan details. Stugged, squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course. Projecting eaves. Decorative bargeboards. Chamfered reveals, sandstone mullions and transoms. Buckle quoins.
W elevation: broad bargeboarded gable to outer right, canted window at centre, ashlar roof and panelled apron. Slightly advanced, ashlar bargeboarded porch in re-entrant angle to left, basket-arched, boarded door, panel in gablehead with modern angle lamp, small window in left return, ashlar transom. Window to outer left bipartite.
S elevation: 3 bays, advanced shouldered flue at centre. Narrow windows flanking to outer left and right.
N elevation: square projecting bay at centre, ashlar roof.
8-pane sash and case window. Stone-slate roof, diamond pattern at centre of each pitch. Rope-moulded, barley- sugar stack on shouldered base, shaped coped cap. Wallhead stack at S, diamond-aligned sandstone stack.
Gatepiers and screen walls: panelled ashlar gatepiers with triglyph panel motif in frieze under which hangs a masonry bauble on link; pyramidal cap. Elaborate perforated screen wall, regular stacked semi-circular sections, on plain base. Curved quadrant walls of stugged, coursed sandstone with ashlar slab coping, lower wall with semi-circular coping continues to W.
The lodge is the former lodge to Riccarton House which was demolished in 1956. The lodge is now part of the Heriot Watt University. The former gardener's cottage and walled garden of Riccarton House are listed separately.
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