Description

Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, 1890. Well-detailed single storey Baronial lodge house with 2- and 3-stage crenellated towers and gatepiers with fine ironwork gates, sited at E entrance to Dinnet House policies. Aberdeen bond granite, mutuled cornice and cross gunloops to towers. Finialled crowstepped gables to single storey bays, chamfered reveals and stone mullions.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: entrance elevation to S, facing gates, with 2-leaf timber door in low crowstepped bay at left, polygonal stair tower to centre with narrow lights, and lower circular tower adjoining at right with bipartite windows to E (road) elevation.

9-pane glazing pattern over plate glass in timber sash and case windows; plate glass glazing to tower lights. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks.

GATEPIERS AND GATES: polygonal bull-faced gatepiers with deep stepped coping and large ball finials flanking 2-leaf decorative ironwork gates and outer pedestrian gates.

Statement of Interest

B Group with Dinnet House, Stables, Walled garden and North Lodge. The East Lodge and Gates present an especially high quality entrance to the long driveway leading to Dinnet House. There is particularly fine detailing on the towers and the Aberdeen bonding, crenellations, and crow-stepped gables all echo details to be found at Dinnet House. The gates show good decorative iron work.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17771362

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas