Old Lodge, Bridge Of Dye

Old Lodge, dated 1778 and modernised in 1947, is a substantial, traditionally detailed house that was originally a shooting lodge. It is located adjacent to the Bridge of Dye, prominently overlooking the Water of Dye. The building features large ashlar blocks with squared rubble at the rear and a single-storey wing, displaying long and shortwork margins. Notable architectural details include moulded skewputts, with the eastern one dated, and a large projecting lintel above the paired doors on the principal elevation.

The symmetrical principal elevation has a paired centre door flanked by stone piers, with windows in the side bays and regular fenestration on the first floor. To the outer right, there is a set-back single-storey bay with a small bipartite window. The windows are timber sash and case, featuring 4- and 12-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered with grey slates and includes small traditional rooflights. The building has banded ashlar stacks with thackstanes and some clay cans, along with ashlar-coped skews and moulded skewputts.

In addition to the main house, there are ancillary buildings. To the west of the house is a two-storey, L-plan, gabled former bothy made of thin lime-harled rubble, which has two northern windows with a 9-pane glazing pattern above two larger casement openings, a boarded timber door, and a gablehead window to the east. This bothy has a slated roof with a broad harled stack and a conically-capped ridge ventilator. There is also a single-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan cottage with a lean-to outshot immediately to the southwest, constructed from slated, squared, and coursed rubble. Additionally, there is a long, single-storey ancillary building made of corrugated iron and timber, along with a tall semicircular timber range to the northwest.