Ingliston House Lodge And Gatepiers, Edinburgh

Probably Thomas Brown, circa 1846. Single storey picturesque lodge sited to SE of house with later additions to rear. Irregular-plan. Roughly squared and snecked rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings and strip quoins; base course. Harled rear. Chamfered reveals, chamfered and moulded to principal openings.

ENTRANCE ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay at centre with bowed ashlar window (2 closely grouped bipartites); fishscale half conical roof; blank panel in gablehead. Door to left by re-entrant angle, boarded door with glazed panel. Small window to outer left. Bay to right (probably slightly later, sensitive addition) slightly recessed from gabled bay with bipartite window and lower ridge line; blank and piend-roofed on return.

ROADSIDE ELEVATION: gabled bay with bow window detailed as above.

REAR ELEVATION: advanced bay to right; openings altered.

Diamond-pane glazing pattern in casement and sash and case windows with border. Overhanging eaves. Timber brackets and barge board to gabled bays. Graded grey slates to principal elevations; stone ridge; later regular grey slates to rear. Panelled and corniced stacks.

GATEPIERS, QUADRANT AND BOUNDARY WALLS: 4 fine polygonal ashlar gatepiers with base course, panelled faces and friezes with cornice and caps swept into ball finials, flanking drive and closing quadrants. Ashlar coped, painted stone quadrant walls. Rubble boundary walls with ashlar coping.