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Gate Lodge, Olrig House

A Category B Listed Building in Thurso and Northwest Caithness, Highland

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Coordinates

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

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

Empty and in poor condition (1982).

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