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Latitude: 55.9984 / 55°59'54"N
Longitude: -2.8843 / 2°53'3"W
OS Eastings: 344940
OS Northings: 678735
OS Grid: NT449787
Mapcode National: GBR 2M.V5Y0
Mapcode Global: WH7TP.NHQD
Plus Code: 9C7VX4X8+97
Entry Name: Gatepiers And Sea Wall, North Lodges, Gosford House
Listing Name: Gosford North Lodges Gatepiers and Sea Wall
Listing Date: 5 February 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338166
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6543
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Gosford House, North Lodges, Gatepiers And Sea Wall
ID on this website: 200338166
Location: Aberlady
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal
Parish: Aberlady
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 18th century, remodelled, Robert William Billings, 1857, twin Jacobean octagonal plan lodges to NW of Gosford House, breaking sea front wall built, circa 1800. Squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Octagonal lodges, each with window to road with mannered pediment and finial. Each doorway inside gateway with similarly detailed pediment, pointed arched window to outer sides. Cornice and parapet pierced on each face by mannered open arches with overthrow, narrow dormer with semi-circular pediment breaking parapet above roadside window with ball-finial and cipher panel. Sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing pattern, grey slates to polygonal roof, central corniced stack. Pair of blind oval oculi flanking lodges each side in outside wall with rope-moulded surrounds.
GATEPIERS: 2 tall gatepiers with spike finialled pyramidal caps, each linked to flanking lodge by curtain wall with broken ashlar coping and pedestrian pend.
POLICY WALLS: rubble coped, rubble wall to road and sea.
Wall around SW area of Gosford policies to Harelaw Farm and the West Lodge are also by Billings, 1854 (listed separately). The rubble policy walls were reputedly built in the early 19th century by French prisoners of war. A-Group with other Gosford Estate buildings; see notes for Gosford House.
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