Gates And Quadrant Walls, Gatepiers, South Lodge, Fasque

Probably John Paterson, circa 1810. Fine, well-detailed single storey, 3-bay, L-plan gabled and finialled lodge with crenellated porch and windowheads and 2 pairs of crenellated gatepiers with decorative ironwork gates, sited at principal entrance to Fasque House. Ashlar with polished dressings. Deep stepped base course. Roundheaded openings, stone mullions, chamfered reveals and raked cills.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: entrance elevation to E with dominant gable projecting at left incorporating 5-light canted crenellated window with panelled aprons and shield plaque in gablehead; single light on right return and large square-plan stone porch in re-entrant angle with vertically-panelled roundheaded timber door below crenellations, 2 with equal-armed crosses, single light on right return; further light to set back bay at right. N and S elevations each with projecting gabled windowhead to projecting square-plan tripartite window.

Lying, multi-pane glazing pattern in timber windows. Grey slates and ashlar ridge. Coped ashlar ridge stack with can. Mitre-coped ashlar skews and moulded skewputts. Stone ball and spike finial to each gablehead.

INTERIOR: not seen 2008. Panelled timber shutters.

GATEPIERS, GATES AND QUADRANT WALLS: 2 pairs of square-section gatepiers with mitred crenellations, decorative ironwork to pedestrian and vehicular gates, and high, coped ashlar quadrant walls.