Description

James MacLaren, 1869. 2-storey, L-plan, Jacobean-style, lodge. Tooled snecked rubble masonry, painted long and short quoins and dressings, slate roof. Base course, 2- and 4-pane sash and case windows with chamfered long and short margins, saddleback skews with skewputts and mannered cast-iron cross finials, moulded stacks.

E ELEVATION: 3-bay; gabled entrance porch at centre looking S, with single window to E return, chamfered segmental-arched doorway with heraldic shield above and finialled gablehead. Recessed bay at left with window at ground floor and gable dormerhead at 1st. Gabled bay projecting at right with windows at ground and 1st floors, corbel detail to gablehead stack. Single storey lean-to at far right.

S GABLE: canted window at ground floor, bipartite at 1st with hoodmould.

W ELEVATION: chimneybreast at right with paired stalks and 2 decorative cans; small window at ground floor left, 6-pane stair window above. Slightly advanced gable at lwft with windows at ground and 1st floors, stepped wall at far left with segmental-arched gateway adjoining cemetery wall.

N GABLE: single storey lean-to addition at ground floor, wallhead gable with attic window and stack, 4 decorative cans.

Statement of Interest

Barnhill cemetery (listed separately) was opened following the closure of the Old Burial Ground at Chapel Lane, off Fisher Street (also listed separately), occasioned in part by a cholera epidemic in 1866. The gatepiers adjoining the lodge are listed with the cemetery.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56630277

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