Nw Lodge, East Lodges, The Drum, Gilmerton, Edinburgh

Late 18th century. Pair of classical single storey lodges to Drum House, linked by quadrant walls with paired rusticated ashlar gatepiers and gates.

LODGE: NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: slightly advanced pavilions to road with Venetian windows to centre, external shuttering to left lodge; blank elevations to each return, adjoining rubble boundary wall to estate. Stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings to road and chimneys, squared rubble sides and rear.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: SE lodge roughly U-plan with door in re-entrant angle, regular fenestration to each side, NW lodge

Venetian windows: centre lights glazed with 12-pane timber sash and case window, side lights blind; mostly 12-pane to SW elevation, some 16-pane. Piended slate roofs with coped ashlar ridge stacks; flat roof with ornamental vent on later extension, irregular Carron lights.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2000.

QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES: walls: base course and moulded gablet coping, adjoining paired rusticated gatepiers with cornice, each with stone overthrow to pedestrian access below with moulded surround and timber boarded doors. Wrought-iron lamps-holders (lamps missing) to innermost piers. Wrought-iron gates of simple design with semi-circular bracing.