Description

Earlier to mid 19th century. Single storey, 4-bay L-plan gabled lodge originally associated with Abbey St Bathans House. Squared and snecked polished whinstone; stugged and droved cream sandstone dressings; rubble whinstone at rear. Raised base course; overhanging timber bracketed eaves; overhanging timber bracketed gableheads. Stugged sandstone quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to openings; lightly droved margins; chamfered reveals; chamfered sandstone mullions; chamfered cills.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled porch in penultimate bay to outer left; timber panelled door recessed within. Single window in bay to outer left; projecting 4-light window beneath central gable; single window breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead to outer right.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: narrow window centred at ground; bipartite window in bay to outer left.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: gabled wing comprising 4-light canted window in bay to outer left; single window in bay to right.

Predominantly lying-pane windows; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to NW. Graded grey slate roof; tapering finial to SE; cast-iron rainwater goods. Coped sandstone ridge stack to main wing; coped stacks at rear; predominantly circular cans; decorative twisted octagonal can to rear with floral detail.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: coped rubble wall flanking side entrance. Square-plan whinstone gatepiers with sandstone dressings; pyramidal caps; gates missing. Plain wrought iron railings enclosing garden; intersecting hoop-railings to front of house.

Statement of Interest

B Group with the nearby stable block, The Kennels and The Riverside (see separate list entries). Built as a gardener's cottage for Abbey St Bathans House (see separate list entry) and situated to the S of a walled garden. Along with the stables, the lodge is thought to date from the earlier to mid 19th century and a period of 'improvement' funded the Heritors of Abbey St Bathans, the Turnbull family. Lawyers by trade and Heritors of the parish from 1786, the Turnbulls invested a significant sum of money in the development of the area. Thus, the building of a new manse, the upgrading of a number of existing farms and the erection of high quality homes for estate workers (see separate list entry for The Square). Today, all these 'improvements' remain much as they did when first complete and are therefore, rare examples of a 19th century development funded by three generations of the same family. Much of the lodge's original detailing remains. Like the stables, it would originally have served the nearby Turnbull residence, Abbey St Bathans House - a complicated gabled house with a mass of decorative bargeboards and barley-sugar cans (see separate list entry).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77770313

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