Gatepiers, Auchterhouse Mansion

The gatepiers at Auchterhouse Mansion date from around 1907 and were extended by J Donald Mills and Godfrey D B Shepherd around 1923. This single-storey, L-plan lodge is designed in the Scottish 17th century style and features a pair of early 20th century gatepiers along with adjoining rubble boundary walls to the northeast of the mansion house. The building is harled with ashlar dressings, and it includes moulded apex stones and prominent moulded scrolled skewputts, as well as projecting painted cills.

On the west (entrance) elevation, there is a boarded door at the center with an ashlar doorcase, flanked by two windows to the right. The gable on the left is advanced and features a window to the left with ashlar margins and a re-used voluted pediment, along with a window on the right return elevation. The south gable has two windows, while the east elevation has steps leading to an off-centre boarded door with an ashlar doorcase and flanking windows, with additional windows to the left and far left. The north elevation includes an original window to the right, a later lower gable to the centre with a bipartite window to the right return, and a lean-to to the left with a cat-slide roof.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with grey slate, featuring an ashlar ridge. The ridge and end stacks are ashlar-coped with single terracotta cans, and the flat-coped ashlar skews have rebated joints.

The interior, as seen in 2011, has had its chimneypieces removed but retains some original boarded doors. The gatepiers consist of a pair of square-section structures that are harled with ashlar margined angles and corniced caps, topped with mushroom finials on swathed bases, which are likely re-used. The boundary walls are made of rubble and adjoin each gatepier.