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Latitude: 58.5963 / 58°35'46"N
Longitude: -3.5078 / 3°30'27"W
OS Eastings: 312465
OS Northings: 968573
OS Grid: ND124685
Mapcode National: GBR K6P0.CXD
Mapcode Global: WH5BK.26XC
Plus Code: 9CCRHFWR+GV
Entry Name: The Lodge And Gateway, Thurso Castle
Listing Name: Thurso East the Lodge (Former Gate Lodge to Thurso East Castle) and Gateway
Listing Date: 28 November 1984
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388460
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42034
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Thurso Castle, The Lodge And Gateway
ID on this website: 200388460
Location: Thurso
County: Highland
Town: Thurso
Electoral Ward: Thurso and Northwest Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
Tagged with: Gatehouse Architectural structure
Possibly Donald Leed, Architect, Thurso, 1870-80.
Exaggerated baronial arched gateway linked to square gate
lodge by crenellated wall. All sneck coursed rubble with
ashlar dressings.
Lodge; square 2-storey, 2-bay dwelling with square angle
turret projecting at SE corner and rising 1 storey above
wallhead. Corbelled and crenellated wallheads; corbelled and
crenellated angle bartizans masking flues; extensive cable
moulding decoration, including angle margins. Dogtooth
decoration to window lintels 2-pane glazing.
Modern sun parlour masks south elevation ground floor;
rendered and lines as ashlar with crenellated wallhead to
flat roof.
Gateway; similar style as lodge, cusped high round headed
arch with flanking buttresses, corbelled and crenellated
wallhead and corbelled and crenellated angle bartizans.
Coped rubble quadrants with terminal end piers detailed
as bartizans.
Donald Leed architect to Ulbster Estates in later 19th
century.
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