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Gate lodge, still in residential use, dated 1885. On the 2nd edition OS map it is named 'West Lodge'. It is a two-storey, L-plan Baronial gate lodge of local tooled rubble red sandstone with ashlar dressings and hoodmoulds of similar material. There is an entrance porch in the re-entrant angle that is buttressed with round-arched openings and a parapet. A canted window in the south gable facing the driveway has an inscribed memorial plaque below and carved armorial in the gable above and a carved heraldic lion finial to the apex. The inscribed plaqure reads: 'This Lodge and gateway were built in 1885 and the new approach to the Castle of Craigston laid out at the same time in pursuance of the wishes of the late Mrs Isabelle Pollard Urquhart of Craigston'. Plate glass and four-pane timber sash and case windows are used, and there are mock square angle bartizans, capped crowsteps, crenellated detailing to corniced chimney stacks and slate roofs. The entrance gates, gatepiers and railings are also from 1885. There is panelled banding and ball-finialled pyramidal caps on a billetted cornice to the gatepiers of red tooled sandstone that support flanking decorative cast-iron carriage and single outer pedestrian gates and decorative cast-iron railings.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)