Ingliston House Lodge And Gatepiers, Edinburgh

Ingliston House Lodge and Gatepiers is a picturesque single-storey lodge, likely designed by Thomas Brown around 1846, located to the southeast of Ingliston House. The lodge has an irregular plan and is constructed from roughly squared and snecked rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings and strip quoins, featuring a base course. The rear is harled.

The entrance elevation features an advanced gabled bay at the center, which includes a bowed ashlar window with two closely grouped bipartite windows and a fishscale half conical roof. There is a blank panel in the gablehead. To the left, near the re-entrant angle, is a boarded door with a glazed panel, accompanied by a small window to the outer left. To the right, there is a slightly recessed bay, likely a sensitive later addition, which has a bipartite window and a lower ridge line, with a blank and piend-roofed return.

On the roadside elevation, there is a gabled bay with a bow window similar to the one on the entrance elevation. The rear elevation has an advanced bay to the right, but its openings have been altered.

The windows feature a diamond-pane glazing pattern in both casement and sash and case styles, with a decorative border. The lodge has overhanging eaves supported by timber brackets and a barge board on the gabled bays. The principal elevations are covered with graded grey slates, while the stone ridge is complemented by later regular grey slates on the rear. The chimney stacks are panelled and corniced.

The gatepiers, quadrant, and boundary walls consist of four fine polygonal ashlar gatepiers with a base course, panelled faces, and friezes topped with cornices and caps that sweep into ball finials, flanking the drive and closing quadrants. The quadrant walls are made of ashlar coped, painted stone, while the boundary walls are constructed from rubble with ashlar coping.