Description

Circa 1820. Single storey 4-bay, gabled, lodge house by E gates to Camptoun House. Random rubble with dressings in contrasting grey sandstone, broached and droved though eroding. Front (S) elevation dominated by advanced semi-circular bow with tripartite windows, stone mullions and conical roof. Flanked to right (E) by single window, to left by door, vertically boarded with bipartite fanlight and sheltered by gabled hood with timber finial and kingpost, single window to end bay. Rear (N) elevation is gabled to W end with bipartite window and stone mullion; lean-to outshot to centre with skylight and 2 small windows.

Fenestration top-opening on rear outshot, otherwise all timber sash and case in 12 lying panes, 6 where narrow. Eaves and verges projecting. Roof of grey graded Scotch slate. 2 cavetto coped ashlar stacks, plain cans, some missing.

OUTBUILDINGS: henhouse and woodshed leaning to boundary wall, slated, derelict.

GATES: 2 decorative cast-iron gates, vehicular and pedestrian. Bounded and divided by 3 tall round or ?drum? sectioned gatepiers in rough snecked rubble, 2 with octagonal cope and ball finial, northmost with plain rounded top. Flanked by rubble wall with castellated cope.

Statement of Interest

See separate listing for Camptoun House.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808194

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