Description

Andrew Heiton Junior, circa 1882. Well-detailed 2-storey, 2-bay lodge and gate sited at principal entrance to Hallyburton House, with Gothic porch, spired stair tower and arched, crowstepped gateway. Stugged red sandstone ashlar with contrasting long and short ashlar dressings. Deep base course, moulded eaves course. Quatrefoil openings in gableheads, relieving arches, moulded openings with raked cills. Circular tower corbelled to octagonal 2nd stage.

LODGE: entrance elevation to W with broad gabled bay incorporating 4-light canted window at ground and tripartite above with quatrefoil window in gablehead; flat-roofed stone porch in re-entrant angle to right with Gothic-arched opening to W and N, and timber door with decorative ironwork. Tower adjoining at SW angle.

Some leaded multi-pane toplights and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Shouldered and coped wallhead stack. Grey slates, some fishscale banding to prominent faces of tower, and to canted window. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts. Cast iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

INTERIOR: not seen 2010.

GATE AND QUADRANT WALLS: ashlar gateway with 2-stage buttresses flanking voussoired and moulded depressed arch with 2-leaf ironwork gates under broad, coped crowsteps rising toward centre. Outer quadrant walls also coped and adjoining boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

A-Group with Hallyburton House; Baldinny Farmhouse; Garage and Game Larders; Ha-Ha to NW and SE of House and Main Driveway; Stables and Ancillary; Sundial; Walled Garden, Shed and Cottage.

The West Lodge and Gate of Hallyburton House is a fine survival which forms an integral part of the estate buildings. Prominently sited at the principal entrance to this large estate on the main Coupar Angus to Dundee road, it is flanked by extensive boundary walls. The high quality detailing reflects Heiton's work at the main house.

From the early years of the 19th century, gate lodges had been developing from the simple box type to become significant architectural additions advertising the quality and aspirations within the carefully marked estate boundary.

Hallyburton's original 1680 house was built for the Hallyburton's of nearby Pitcur. The large estate was purchased by Graham Menzies from the Marquis of Huntly in 1879 for the sum of £235,000. Graham Menzies, founder of the Distillers Company, passed the estate to his son W G Graham Menzies in 1890. Gordon W Menzies commissioned the 1903 Lorimer work, and Hallyburton remains in the same family today.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17844274

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)