Description

1867. Single storey and attic asymmetric picturesque lodge with later alterations including contemporary pitch-roofed extension (2003) to rear. Overhanging eaves with timber purlins. Rock-faced coursed ashlar with ashlar dressings to principal elevations, whinstone rubble to rear.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced gabled entrance porch; later timber boarded door in roll-moulded shouldered surround; date (1867) and monogram (BQ) inscribed over; narrow windows to returns. Gabled bay to left.

Predominantly modern painted aluminium-framed windows: small diamond quarry windows to gableheads. Graded grey slates. Tall corniced sandstone stack with small cylindrical cans.

Statement of Interest

Built as a gate lodge for Kirkhouse (see separate listing), for the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17849599

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]