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Latitude: 57.5996 / 57°35'58"N
Longitude: -3.433 / 3°25'58"W
OS Eastings: 314452
OS Northings: 857522
OS Grid: NJ144575
Mapcode National: GBR K8WM.XSZ
Mapcode Global: WH6JK.77HX
Plus Code: 9C9RHHX8+RQ
Entry Name: Priory Lodge, Pluscarden Abbey
Listing Name: Pluscarden Abbey, Porter's Lodge
Listing Date: 26 January 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 340584
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB8442
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Pluscarden Abbey, Priory Lodge
ID on this website: 200340584
Location: Elgin
County: Moray
Electoral Ward: Heldon and Laich
Parish: Elgin
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Gatehouse
James McBride, Elgin 1820-21. Originally cruciform; single storey lodge with dormerless attic, 3 bays. Coursed rubble, ashlar dressings.
Centre projecting crowstepped and gabled porch in W front with pointed hoodmoulded door and pointed, latticed glazed fanlight, blind trefoil above. Flanking pointed arched and hoodmoulded windows, gothic glazing; similar window centre, E gable. Attic window centre S gable. Crowstepped gables with stone crosses at apices; centre ridge battery of 3 diamond stacks; West Highland slate roof; stone ridge. New extension at NE in matching style (circa 1984).
Earl of Fife purchased Pluscarden 1821 and built lodge soon after.
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