Description

Dated 1883. Single storey, single bay, rectangular-plan lodge to Kirkhill House (now Hotel, see separate listing). Squared and snecked tooled sandstone; stugged dressings droved to margins. Projecting cills and raised margins; chamfered reveals; long and short quoins; overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical. Gabled porch advanced to centre with segmental-arched doorway; replacement panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight; tooled panel reading "W.J. 1883" (for William Johnston) set in gablehead; window to left return. Small window flanking porch to left; harled 20th century addition flanking to right.

W AND S ELEVATIONS: not seen 1998.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; canted 3-light window off-centre to right.

Predominantly 2-pane timber windows with top hoppers. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped, harled ridge stack with circular can. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: polished square-plan gatepiers painted white, stop chamfered angles; blank frieze with corniced neck, ball finial. Rubble quadrant walls with ashlar coping surmounted by ironwork railings.

Statement of Interest

B Group with Kirkhill Hotel (formerly Kirkhill House), see separate listing. Sir William Johnston was Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1845-51, and co-founder of W & A K Johnston, the map makers.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77774211

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)