Gatepiers, Auchterhouse Mansion

Circa 1907; extended J Donald Mills and Godfrey D B Shepherd, circa 1923. Single storey, L-plan, Scottish 17th century style lodge with early 20th century pair of gatepiers and adjoining rubble boundary walls to NE of mansion house. Harled, ashlar dressings. .Moulded apex stones. Prominent moulded scrolled skewputts. Projecting painted cills.

WEST (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: boarded door with ashlar doorcase at centre, 2 windows to right. Gable advanced to left, window to left with ashlar margins and re-used voluted pediment, window to right return elevation.

S GABLE: 2 windows.

E ELEVATION: steps leading to off-centre boarded door with ashlar doorcase and flanking windows, window to left and right, further window to far left.

N ELEVATION: original window to right. Later lower gable to centre with bipartite window to right return; lean-to to left with cat-slide roof.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Steeply-pitched grey slate roof with ashlar ridge. Ashlar-coped ridge and end stacks with single terracotta cans. Flat-coped ashlar skews with rebated joints.

INTERIOR (seen 2011): chimneypieces removed; some original boarded doors.

GATEPIERS: pair of square-section gatepiers. Harled, ashlar margined angles and corniced caps, mushroom finials on swathed bases (probably re-used).

BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble boundary walls adjoin each gatepier.