Description

Probably John Milne, circa 1880. Single storey, cruciform-plan gabled lodge with turret-roofed porch. Squared and snecked dressed rubble with polished ashlar dressings. Eaves cornice to porch. Pointed-arch doorway with voussoirs; stop-chamfered arrises and stone mullions.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced gable with window in bay to right, round turret-roofed porch with panelled timber door and ball and spike finial in re-entrant angle to left.

S ELEVATION: projecting gable to centre with slightly advanced bipartite window below battered coping, round porch (see above) with narrow light in re-entrant angle to right, and flat-roofed extension in re-entrant angle to left.

W ELEVATION: advanced gable to centre with door to right and bipartite window to left, flat-roofed extensions in flanking re-entrant angles.

N ELEVATION: slightly advanced centre gable with window to right.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case window to porch, top-opening timber windows elsewhere. Graded grey slates with fish-scale band to turret. Coped ashlar stack with cans at crossing, ashlar-coped skews and moulded skewputts.

BOUNDARY WALLS: ashlar-coped squared-rubble boundary walls with broad stepped gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Probably the janitor's lodge forming part of early board school group with East School (known to be by Milne) and Headmaster's House listed separately.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77772416

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House