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Gate lodges, still in use, built in circa 1750 with later alterations and additions. They are pair square, single-bay, two-storey pavilion gate lodges, flanking the entrance to Banff Castle (NJ66SE0018) from Castle Street. The north lodge is harled, with tooled ashlar dressings and a shallow blind arcade to the west street front, with mid/later 19th century ground and first floor windows in the centre. It has similar fenestration in the south elevation. The lodge is linked to a similar-shaped building, constructed in the mid-later 19th century and joined to the front pavilion by a narrow entrance bay. It has four-pane timber sash and case glazing. There are later 19th century rear wallhead stacks to each pavilion, and piended slate roofs. The south lodge is slightly lower in height than North Lodge, and is also harled, with ashlar margins. It has shallow round-headed arcades in both the west (to Castle Street) and east elevations. The east arcade has the upper part infilled with planking above bandcourse height. There is an off-centre doorway in the south, with a later off-centre window in the east elevation. It also has a piended slate roof. The south pavilion appears never to have served as a dwelling for lodge-keeper and may have been a carriage house, for which there appears no provision elsewhere. The gatepiers and gates are mid-later 19th century, and were re-instated from Duff House (NJ66SE0007). The pair of plain, square, tooled ashlar gatepiers have shallow pyramidal caps above a band of billet-moulding detail. They support a pair of cast-iron carriage gates and matching flanking pedestrian gates, the latter flanked by plain harled outer piers.
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