Description

Built circa 1860 as lodge to Murdostoun Castle. Castellated. Lodge is single storey and basically L-plan clasping a tall 3-storey entrance tower which has hood-moulded shouldered doorway and crenellated parapet; body of Lodge has gable to driveway with narrow canted window with side lights. Mullioned windows both at ground and attic in gable to main roadway. Snecked rubble, ashlar dressings, deep-eaved slate roof, centre axial stack. Gatepiers are distinctive, castellated and gabletted, cast-iron gates; quadrant walls.

Statement of Interest

Damaged by fire and in neglected condition (1988).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17826657

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey