East Lodge, Lamington House, Clydesdale East, South Lanarkshire

Entry Name: East Lodge, Lamington House

Listing Name: Lamington, East Lodge Including Gatepiers and Gates

Listing Date: 3 October 1985

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 339326

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7452

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200339326

Location: Lamington and Wandel

County: South Lanarkshire

Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East

Parish: Lamington And Wandel

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

Tagged with: Lodge

Description

Dated 1858. Single storey with gabled attic, 3-bay, cottage orne style gate lodge with decorative glazing pattern, overhanging eaves and prominent decorative timber porch. Whinstone rubble with chamfered ashlar quoins and margins. Later 20th century flat roofed kitchen extension to the rear.

Timber mullioned windows with highly decorative diamond-pane margined glazing pattern to windows and fanlight. Grey slate roof on timber bargeboarded overhanging eaves, single stack to rear.

GATES AND GATEPIERS: c.1930 rubble capped, rendered, circular gatepiers with pedestrian gate to right. 20th century timber latticed gates.

Statement of Interest

Built as one of two gate lodges to the former Lamington House in characteristic estate style with some good details. The particularly fine margined, diamond-pane, glazing pattern survives to the windows.

In 1838 Alexander Cochrane MP (b1816), grandson of the Earl of Dundonald, inherited the Baillie family estate of Lamington at which time he took on its name to become Alexander Baillie Cochrane. He became Lord Lamington in 1883. Baillie-Cochrane inherited a modest estate and set about rebuilding it from 1844 following his marriage to Anabella Drummond, and began by making large additions to the existing shooting lodge in Elizabethan style to form the, now demolished, Lamington House. At the time Lamington village was a series of bothies stretched along the old roadside to the south of the House. He set about building a new village in a programme of improvements to the NE of the house with the earliest building dating to the 1840s and the latest to the 1870s. At this time the main road was redirected to the NW between the two gate lodges to afford privacy to Lamington House and Estate. These village buildings survive today and maintain the character of a planned estate village as they were designed.

The architect of the associated village is not known however it is thought William Spence (1806?-1883) may have been involved in the building of some of the village estate buildings. He built Coulter Mains house in the adjacent Coulter Parish. Spence worked as an assistant to both David Bryce and William Burn and the first house with which he was associated, Coulter Mains house in the adjacent Coulter Parish, bears elements of the Burn and Bryce school. There are elements of design in the estate houses of the village which also have these characteristics.

The Lamington Papers held in the Mitchell Archive include a letter from architect David Bryce in 1838 stating that he encloses his revised, scaled down plans for the shooting lodge at Lamington. It is not known whether he carried out the commission for the shooting lodge which became Lamington House or whether the job was completed by someone else. The architects Wardrop and Brown are know to have carried out a music room addition in 1858, the same date as the gate lodge.

The gatepiers replaced the original 'Heather Gates', earthbound rubble pillars planted with heather. The lodge originally had ornamental bargeboards as with some of the other estate buildings.

List Description revised and category changed from B to C(S) at resurvey (2010).

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