Boundary Wall And Gatepiers, Gatelodge, Kames Cottage, Bute

Mid to later 19th century. Single storey, 3-bay L-plan gabled lodge with single storey addition at rear. Squared and snecked yellow rubble sandstone; yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Raised base course; architraved string course; polished frieze beneath corniced eaves; crenellated parapet; crowstepped gables. Tooled yellow sandstone quoins; tooled long and short surrounds to openings; chamfered reveals; sandstone mullions. Harled addition at rear; polished long and short dressings.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door off-set to right of centre; architraved hoodmould; single window in return to right. 3-light canted window centred beneath gabled bay to outer left; tapering finial. Stylised cruciform gunloop in rectangular panel in bay recessed to outer right.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: single window off-set to left of centre of original lodge; single window centred beneath advanced, gabled addition to outer left.

Lying-pane timber sash and case glazing to original lodge; 6-pane timber casement glazing to addition. Grey slate roof; crowstepped skews; replacement rainwater goods. Coped ridge stack at centre; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: rubble-coped, random rubble wall enclosing site. Splayed rubble walls flanking entrance; crenellated parapets. Square-plan sandstone ashlar piers to outer left and right; pyramidal caps. Stop-chamfered, square-plan ashlar piers with crenellated parapets flanking vehicular and pedestrian entrances. Heraldic shields centred in decorative wrought iron gates (pedestrian gate missing).