Survey Data
Reg No
31306615
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
House
Date
1912 - 1915
Coordinates
87430, 296077
Date Recorded
06/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey gate lodge, extant 1915, on a rectangular plan with three-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation. Renovated, ----, to accommodate occasional private residential use. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement cement rendered walls centred on cut-limestone panel (first floor). Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone (ground floor) or concrete (first floor) sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set perpendicular to road at entrance to grounds of Rosturk Castle.
Appraisal
A gate lodge clearly illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the Rosturk Castle estate in the early twentieth century with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on an emblem reminiscent of the Royal Banner of Scotland; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.