East Lodge, Duthie Park, Aberdeen

William R McKelvie, 1883. Quadrangular-plan public park.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS

Gateways to NE, W, SW and SE; 2-leaf decorative ironwork gates to centre of each gateway flanked to left and right by single pedestrian gate; 4 square-plan stop-chamfered gatepiers, battered rough-faced rubble base, ashlar shaft, spherical finial to decorative corniced cap; coped low quadrant granite walls to left and right with terminating piers (as above). Coped granite boundary walls, ashlar on rough-faced base to outer walls; walls stepped up to W surmounted by iron railings.

EAST LODGE

Single storey; 2-bay; baronial lodge to NE of park inside NE gate. Tooled coursed grey granite with long and short finely finished margins. Rough-faced base course; chamfered reveals; eaves cornice; decorative spherical stone finials to apex of gables.

W (Entrance) Elevation: asymmetrical; bay to left blank; gabled bay advanced to right, 3-light canted window to ground floor, narrow single pane window set in gablehead; square-plan entrance tower to re-entrant angle to left, window to centre, blind oculus in hoodmould above and to left return, roll-moulded doorway with panelled timber door and letterbox fanlight to ground floor of left return, pyramidal spire with fishscale banded roof and iron weathervane to apex.

S Elevation: asymmetrical; bipartite window off-centre to right at ground floor.

E Elevation: 20th century additions, predominantly not seen 1999.

N Elevation: symmetrical; gabled; bipartite window surmounted by nailhead stone set in stepped hoodmould with nailhead dripstones to centre, narrow single pane window set in gablehead; deeply chamfered angles to outer left and right.

Predominantly 2-pane replacement timber windows with top hoppers. Grey slate roof with lead ridge; louvred gableted ventilator breaking pitch to W. Coped stone skews with gableted skewputts. Corniced stop-chamfered granite ridge stacks with octagonal and circular cans. Decorative cast-iron rainwater goods.

Interior: not seen 1999.