Description

Later 19th century. Single storey; asymmetrical-plan; lodge with bargeboarded and finialled gables, deep overhanging eaves and gabled porch and canted window to principal (W) elevation. Coursed stugged snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course except to E elevation. Architraved windows with bracketed cills (apart from to canted window and outhouse lean-to to E); chamfered reveals to all openings, except to those to outhouse lean-to; externally projecting rafters and purlins throughout; braced pendant timber finial to each gable, as well as timber apex finial (only that to S gable missing).

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: gabled porch bay projects to left; architraved raised in semicircle over lintel; boarded timber door. 3-light canted window set back to right.

S ELEVATION: gabled bay with central window.

N ELEVATION: window to gabled bay to centre. E lean-to adjoins to left. Side elevation of porch bay set back to right; 2-light mullioned window to left.

E ELEVATION: outhouse lean-to projects to right; unglazed window to left; boarded timber door to right. Window set back to left.

8 and 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with grey ridge tiles. 2 tall ridge stacks, both corniced and with moulded coping; one with octagonal and circular cans; one with moulded rectangular can.

INTERIOR: not inspected (1999).

Statement of Interest

A substantially intact later 19th century lodge in the pictureseque tradition. It was built for St Roque, a large villa of around 1845, which is now part of the Astley Ainslie Hospital (see separate list description).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77774530

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)