West Lodge

West Lodge was built in 1872 and serves as a single storey and attic, three-bay, rectangular-plan Jacobean former gate lodge located to the northwest of Garthdee House. The building is constructed in Aberdeen bond, cherry-cocked granite, featuring a base course, tooled granite, and chamfered openings. It has kneelered gables and skewputts.

The principal (southeast) elevation features a slightly advanced kneelered entrance gable with a pointed arched doorpiece and a replacement entrance door. Above the doorpiece, there is a spherical light suspended on a decorative iron bracket, along with a blind shield at the gablehead and a stone finial at the apex. Box dormers are positioned on either side of the central gable. The northeast gable elevation includes a three-light canted bay window made of ashlar granite, complete with a cornice and blocking course. The rear (northwest) elevation has a 20th-century single storey addition that is harled and has a piended roof, along with a box dormer on the northwest roof pitch of the lodge.

At the rear of the lodge is a single storey, rectangular plan outbuilding made of rubble, topped with a monopitch slate roof. 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 and pairs of decorative clay cans.

The interior, as seen in 2014, is symmetrically arranged around a central staircase, but no features from the 19th-century decorative scheme are visible. To the north and northeast of the lodge are two pairs of squat, square-plan gatepiers, which have stop-chamfered corners, moulded cornice details, and very shallow pyramidal caps.