Description

Later 19th century. Single storey and attic piecturesque gabled lodgehouse with overhanging bracketed eaves, set back from road behind railings at W entrance to The Drum. Squared and coursed stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings; base course, stone mullions, chamfered reveals, moulded band course, 1st floor slightly corbelled out.

SE ELEVATION: entrance in advanced, gabled bay, deep-set door with lugged raised surround, window to gable at 1st floor, bipartite with bracketed stone canopy to left at ground.

SW ELEVATION: to road, advanced gabled bay with bipartite to each floor, single bay at ground floor left.

Lower single storey wing at rear. Sash and case windows with 6-pane glazing pattern. Timber barge boards, brackets and kingpost detail to gables, grey slates, corniced ashlar ridge stack to N.

GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: 6 gatepiers linked by plinth with railings, rusticated ashlar with moulded base and cornice. Cast-iron gates, low curved ashlar plinth supporting railings with wrought- and cast-iron foliate panels, simple cast-iron railings to road linking final pair of gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Forms part of Category A group with other estate buildings at The Drum; The Drum, East Lodges (in Newton Parish Midlothian), Gardeners' Cottages, Icehouses, Mercat Cross, Stables, Steading, Walled Garden, Drumbank and North Gatepiers all listed separately.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• The Drum at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q16901512

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)