North Gate-Lodge, Dundas Castle

William Burn, circa 1820. Single storey, 3-bay Tudor gothic lodge house comprising principal range with advanced and open-pedimented E gable and canted W gable, principal elevation to S with open-pedimented gable advanced at left and entrance porch in re-entrant at centre. Battered base course, moulded reveals and hoodmoulds to windows. Stugged and polished sandstone ashlar walls and details.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 6-light mullioned and transomed window centring gable advanced in bay to left. Panelled and gothic-glazed timber entrance door in centre bay, stone porch in re-entrant comprising square column with chamfered arrises supporting Tudor-arched corniced stone canopy. 2-light mullioned window in bay to right.

E GABLE: open-pedimented gable advanced at centre, centred in turn by 2-light blind window with sloping cill and gothic tracery.

W GABLE: asymmetrical, canted at left with pointed-arched window to each face; 3-centre-arched window in side of S gable to right.

Grey slate roof, piended at canted W end and flanking E gable. Stugged sandstone ashlar stacks, corniced with bases and circular cans; single-flue W stack piercing canted roof; 2-flue stack to principal ridge, shouldered, with canted ends and incised arrowslit decoration to shaft.

GATES, GATEPIERS, AND RAILINGS: ornate wrought-iron principal gates; square sandstone ashlar gatepiers with bases, stop-chamfered shafts and corniced pyramidal caps. Quadrant walls flanking, curving to road (E), comprising ashlar dwarf wall with roll-moulded cope and ornate wrought-iron railing, terminated to N and S by matching ashlar piers. Random rubble wall extending to N and S along road; wrought-iron pedestrian gate with square, capped, sandstone ashlar piers adjacent to N of principal gates.