Murtry Lodges, Gates, Gate Piers And Railings At Entrance To Orchardlea Park

Murtry Lodges, gates, gate piers, and railings at the entrance to Orchardlea Park are two lodges built in the early 19th century. The lodges are made of ashlar stone and feature cross gabled slate roofs with copings and statuesque finials, each with a central polygonal ashlar stack. The design is Tudoresque, with two storeys. Each lodge has a single two-light stone mullioned window under a stopped label on the first floor, and two slightly taller similar two-light openings on the ground floor; the right lodge's ground floor opening has been altered to a door with a 20th-century half-glazed door. There are four heraldic shields in relief on the first floor of each lodge.

The lodge on the left has a single-storey pent roofed outshut with a 20th-century casement window on the front. The lodge on the right has a two-storey, one-bay 20th-century extension that matches the original style. Each lodge faces the entrance road, featuring a large central door opening with an elaborately moulded stone surround and paired panelled and studded doors, each with a stopped label incorporating a heraldic shield. Above the doors, there are stone plaques inscribed with "Pro patria timidus perive" on the right lodge and "Auxilium, neum a domino" on the left lodge.

Between the lodges, there are central wrought iron gates set on wrought iron piers, each topped with a winged crown. Low decorative wrought iron railings enclose the forecourt of each lodge, ending in tall ashlar piers with four-stage pyramidal caps.