Gate With Flanking Lodge And Tower, To North Of Rose Castle

The gate with flanking lodge and tower, located to the north of Rose Castle, dates from the early 16th century and was built for Bishop Kite, with alterations made in the mid-18th century. It is constructed from large blocks of red sandstone rubble. The gateway is set within curtain walls and features the remains of a water tower on the left and a lodge on the right. The gateway has a large segmental arch that includes a 16th-century carved stone panel depicting a rose in a quatrefoil shape along with corner shields above it. To the right, there is a pedestrian pointed arch. The structure is topped with a battlemented parapet. The former tower on the left has a blocked entrance with a chamfered surround, which originally provided access to an outer watch tower built over the moat. This wall has been reduced in height and now has a gabled top. Behind the gate, there is a twin-gabled building that served as an 18th-century gardener's storehouse, featuring sandstone slate roofs. The lodge on the right is mostly demolished, but its outer walls remain as part of the curtain wall, with an angle projection. This structure likely replaced an earlier drawbridge gate tower mentioned in 1479. The gate has group value with Rose Castle.