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Latitude: 58.5804 / 58°34'49"N
Longitude: -3.3961 / 3°23'45"W
OS Eastings: 318920
OS Northings: 966670
OS Grid: ND189666
Mapcode National: GBR K6Z1.P1J
Mapcode Global: WH6CQ.TL0H
Plus Code: 9CCRHJJ3+5H
Entry Name: Gate Lodge, Olrig House
Listing Name: Olrig House Gate Lodge and Gate Piers
Listing Date: 28 November 1984
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 347269
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14015
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Olrig House, Gate Lodge
ID on this website: 200347269
Location: Olrig
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Thurso and Northwest Caithness
Parish: Olrig
Traditional County: Caithness
Tagged with: Gatehouse Architectural structure
Later 19th century, idiosyncratic single storey and attic
gabled asymmetrical gate lodge; coursed stugged rubble,
tooled dressings, some painted in contrasting courses.
Projecting gabled porch in NW elevation (facing entrance
drive), with ribbed and studded door with decorative
cast-iron hinges; window at left and boldly gabled dormer
above; round window set in ground floor canted north angle;
lean-to porch with leaded roof at NE with small round-headed
attic window in centre gable above. Rectangular bay window
under fishscale slated lean-to roof with diminutive corbelled
oriel above, in SW gable. 4- and 6-pane glazing. All angles
with unusual projecting alternating quoin detailing; ornate
bargeboards; decorative cast-iron ridge cresting; tall
paired end stacks with string courses and cornices, rising
from slate roof.
Gate piers; pair square, coursed dressed rubble gate piers
with corbelled pyramidal caps linked by low coursed rubble
quadrants to similar piers; modern pierced concrete walling
replaces earlier cast-iron railings.
Empty and in poor condition (1982).
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