South Lodge With Gates And Gatepiers, Dundas Castle

South Lodge with Gates and Gatepiers at Dundas Castle is a single-storey, three-bay gabled lodge house built in the mid to late 19th century, featuring Tudor details. The main structure has a gabled principal range with an additional gable projecting to the south at the eastern end, creating an L-plan layout. There is a timber entrance porch located in the re-entrant angle and a single-storey lean-to at the rear. The walls are constructed of stugged sandstone, accented with stugged and droved sandstone ashlar dressings and details. The windows are mullioned and have hoodmoulds.

On the south (principal) elevation, the design is asymmetrical, featuring a two-light window in the left bay. The entrance door is located in the central bay, which is fronted by a timber porch that has herringbone-boarded aprons and latticed upper sections on the sides, topped with a slated roof that breaks the eaves. A timber gablet at the front is decorated with bargeboards and a finial. The right bay is advanced and gabled, containing a two-light mullioned window at the center and an architraved blank panel in the gablehead.

The east and west gables are blank, with the sides of the lean-to recessed on both the right and left. The north (rear) elevation is also asymmetrical, featuring a vertically-boarded timber door at the center, a hoppered four-pane window to the left, and a narrow window along with a coal store door to the right.

The principal elevation showcases 8-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring overhanging eaves and exposed rafter ends. The rear pitch extends continuously over the lean-to, and there are barge boards on the gables. The chimney stacks are made of ashlar with circular cans, comprising engaged semi-octagonal shafts linked at the top and bottom by moulded copes and rectangular bases.

The gates, gatepiers, and walls consist of a studded lattice-grid timber and iron principal gate, with matching pedestrian gates situated between pairs of octagonal sandstone ashlar gatepiers that have bases and corniced pyramidal caps, along with friezes featuring strapwork carving. The surrounding walls are made of random rubble, topped with a stugged sandstone saddleback cope along the road.