Lodge, Auchengower, Cove

Later 19th century. Single storey, L-plan, gabled Gothic lodge with Jacobean Baronial details en suite with villa of Auchengower. Whinstone and sandstone rubble, polished sandstone dressings and margins; chamfered reveals, lintel band with chip-carved floral details. Base course; quoins; eaves band. Projecting eaves supported on paired timber consoles at corners.

SW ELEVATION: narrow gable advanced to outer right, finial missing, slightly projecting bipartite window advanced at ground, bead cornice, coped roof with gablet motif, cast-iron brattishing, corner buttresses; window on left return. Gabled porch in re-entrant angle to left, decorative bargeboard, finial, modern reconstituted stone door, sandstone 3-centred arched pediment above, armorial details in pediment; narrow lancet on left return.

NW ELEVATION: gable with 2-tiered bargeboard, canted window with angled coped roof, gablet motif; porch recessed to right. Modern lean-to boarded bay with felt roof to outer left.

SE ELEVATION: 2 windows grouped to outer right, 8-pane sash and case, plate glass.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with bands of diaper and fish-scale patterns; lead flashings, raised coped, sandstone stack on SE elevation; tall, broad coped wallhead stack to NE.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

BOUNDARY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS: ashlar convex plinth wall with saddleback coping, decorative cast-iron railings between outer and inner gatepiers. Square gatepiers with stop-chamfered arrises, gabletted cornice, raised to gabletted cap.