Description

Circa 1850. Single storey, 3-bay, T-plan gate lodge with crowstepped gables. Squared and snecked pink sandstone front elevation, random rubble to remainder, with broached and droved dressings. Modern alterations, especially to rear.

W (FRONT) RANGE: symmetrical, central doorway with modern glazed timber door, flanked by 2 windows with advanced margins and lintels breaking eaves with flat copes. Blank gables, both with 2 square steel plates.

E (REAR) WING: not seen, 2000. Perpendicular to W section. Door and window to N, window to S.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Graded grey-green slate roof, stone ridges. Modern dormer incorporated into N roof of E section; skylight and velux additions. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2000.

GATE ARCH: symmetrical broached and droved sandstone ashlar gateway. High round arch with chamfered margins, with stepped curvilinear coping, surmounted by ball finial on plinth at apex. Pedestrian gateway to E through Prestongrange Boundary Walls (see separate listing), with modern wrought-iron gate.

Statement of Interest

B Group with Prestongrange House, Prestongrange House Boundary Walls, Prestongrange House East Lodge and Prestongrange House North Lodge (see separate listings). Listed primarily for the quality of the gate arch, and possible association with W H Playfair's work on Prestongrange House, 1830-50 (see separate listing). The gate arch is of similar design to that at Prestongrange House East Lodge (see separate listing).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77777366

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)