Description

Circa 1880. Single storey 3-bay gabled lodge with overhanging eaves and large modern extension to rear. Whinstone with bull-faced cream sandstone dressings; dry-dash extension with slate-hung 1st floor. Long and short dressings; chamfered arrises; eaves supported on pierced timber brackets.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced gabled porch at centre with boarded door, shouldered plate glass fanlight and finial; gabled bay to left with bipartite window and framed blind square plaque in gablehead; right bay with bipartite window breaking eaves with gabled dormerhead. Gables with cross bracing; various Velux windows.

W (ROAD) ELEVATION: gabled with projecting apex stack and window to right; extension set back to left.

E ELEVATION: blank gable with apex stack; extension set back to right with door at ground.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: dominated by modern extension projecting at centre.

Timber sash and case plate glass windows to original building; extension with timber windows at ground and velux windows at 1st floor. Grey slates; coped sandstone apex stacks (octagonal can to E).

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: square stop-chamfered ashlar gatepiers with flattened pyramidal caps; low rubble quadrant wall with saddleback ashlar coping survives to N (picket fence to S).

Statement of Interest

There is a lodge in this position shown on the 1st edition OS map 1856. Venlaw Castle Hotel is listed separately in Peebles Parish and the lodge is listed for group value.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56645044

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House