West Lodge Including Boundary Walls And Gates, Kemnay House

Possibly John Smith (see Notes), dated 1826. Finely detailed single storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan lodge sited at W entrance to Kemnay House policies, with triangular-plan oriel windows, steeply-pitched gables, decorative bands of fishscale and lozenge pattern slates, and elegant brattishing to roof ridges. Large blocks of bull-faced ashlar with narrow polished margins and quoin strips. Deep base course. Broad segmental-arched moulded doorpiece with dated keystone, and segmental-arched windows with roll-moulded mullions. Timber mullions.

Symmetrical entrance elevation to driveway at NW incorporating projecting centre gable with chamfered outer angles, 2-leaf panelled timber door and segmental plate glass fanlight below blind panel, bipartite windows in flanking bays. Oriel window under elongated swept roof to NE and SW gables. 3 small modern rooflights to rear (SE) elevation.

INTERIOR: simple interior with 2 main rooms retaining moulded cornices and fireplaces.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. Decorative slated roof with ridge brattishing. Squat coped ashlar ridge stacks with clay cans flanking centre gabled bay. Deeply overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATES: stepped, low, flat-coped, bull-faced boundary walls with decorative ironwork gates and finialled gatepiers.