Eastside Lodge, Forglen House

Eastside Lodge, built around 1865, is a two-storey, L-plan lodge designed in a French style, likely by A and W Reid of Elgin. It serves as the entrance to Forglen House and features an advanced two-stage tower located at the re-entrant angle. The exterior is harled with ashlar margins, including a base course, eaves course, stone mullions, string courses, and hoodmoulds on the tower.

On the east elevation, the tower is centrally positioned with a round-arched doorway at the ground level, which has a rope-effect moulding in a stop-chamfered surround. Above the doorway is a hoodmould with masque label stops that encloses an armorial panel, continuing as a string course. The door is deep-set and boarded, topped with a radial fanlight. Each return of the tower features a round-arched lancet. At the second stage, a rope-moulded string course is raised over a bull's-eye window, with tall, narrow windows above on each elevation that break the eaves in gabled dormerheads with finials. The pyramidal roof is covered with fish-scale slates and topped with a weathervane. To the left, there is a gable end with a piended, canted window at the ground floor and a bipartite window at the gablehead. To the right, a single recessed bay features a tripartite window at the ground and a pedimented dormer breaking the eaves at the first floor.

The south elevation has a broad, gabled bay at the center, with a piended, canted bay at the ground level and a round-arched bipartite window with an armorial panel recessed above at the gablehead. A crenellated curtain wall with a coped ashlar parapet extends to the west at ground level, terminating in a conical-roofed turret. The curtain wall encloses a courtyard at the rear. The lodge has sash and case windows with plate glass sashes, and the roofs are covered with grey slates, with fish-scale slates on the tower, turret, and canted bays. There are paired octagonal corniced stacks at the center and decorative rainwater fixtures are retained.

The lodge is accompanied by four gatepiers, with carriage gates at the center flanked by pedestrian gates. These are made of ashlar with nailhead rustication on the north and south faces, topped with urn finials crowned with obelisks. The outer piers are overgrown. The cast-iron gates are scrolled and incorporate the initials A and B in gold leaf. Ashlar coped retaining walls extend to the main road.