Gatepiers, East Lodge

East Lodge, built in 1872, is a single-storey and attic, three-bay, rectangular-plan former gate lodge designed in the Jacobean style, located to the northeast of Garthdee House. The building is constructed from Aberdeen bond, cherry-cocked granite, featuring a base course, tooled granite long and short margins, and chamfered openings. It has kneelered gables and skewputts. The principal (northwest) elevation features a slightly advanced kneelered entrance gable with a Tudor-arched doorpiece and a replacement entrance door. Above the doorpiece hangs a spherical light on a decorative iron bracket, with a blind shield at the gablehead and a stone finial at the apex. The southwest gable elevation includes a three-light canted bay window made of ashlar granite, complete with a cornice and blocking course. The rear (southeast) elevation has several additions from various 20th century dates and a box dormer flanked by two stacks.

The windows predominantly feature 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. The roof is pitched and covered with grey slates, and there are gablehead stacks with chamfered copes.

The interior, as seen in 2014, is symmetrically arranged around a central staircase, with painted timber boarding to dado in most rooms and plain cornicing.

To the north of the lodge, there is a pair of squat, square-plan gatepiers with stop-chamfered corners, moulded cornice detail, and very shallow pyramidal caps.