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Lodge, Kirkhill Hotel, Gorebridge

A Category C Listed Building in Midlothian South, Midlothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8473 / 55°50'50"N

Longitude: -3.0643 / 3°3'51"W

OS Eastings: 333456

OS Northings: 662076

OS Grid: NT334620

Mapcode National: GBR 701T.CR

Mapcode Global: WH6T7.W9Z7

Plus Code: 9C7RRWWP+W7

Entry Name: Lodge, Kirkhill Hotel, Gorebridge

Listing Name: Kirkhill Lodge, Including Gatepiers, Railings and Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 5 May 1999

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 393325

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46135

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200393325

Location: Cockpen

County: Midlothian

Electoral Ward: Midlothian South

Parish: Cockpen

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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Description

Dated 1883. Single storey, single bay, rectangular-plan lodge to Kirkhill House (now Hotel, see separate listing). Squared and snecked tooled sandstone; stugged dressings droved to margins. Projecting cills and raised margins; chamfered reveals; long and short quoins; overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical. Gabled porch advanced to centre with segmental-arched doorway; replacement panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight; tooled panel reading "W.J. 1883" (for William Johnston) set in gablehead; window to left return. Small window flanking porch to left; harled 20th century addition flanking to right.

W AND S ELEVATIONS: not seen 1998.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; canted 3-light window off-centre to right.

Predominantly 2-pane timber windows with top hoppers. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped, harled ridge stack with circular can. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: polished square-plan gatepiers painted white, stop chamfered angles; blank frieze with corniced neck, ball finial. Rubble quadrant walls with ashlar coping surmounted by ironwork railings.

Statement of Interest

B Group with Kirkhill Hotel (formerly Kirkhill House), see separate listing. Sir William Johnston was Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1845-51, and co-founder of W & A K Johnston, the map makers.

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