Balker Lodge, Lochinch Castle

Balker Lodge is a single-storey gate lodge built in the later 19th century, with some later alterations. It is constructed from whinstone, featuring contrasting sandstone quoins and dressings, and has bracketed timber eaves.

On the north elevation, there is a gabled timber entrance porch located to the outer right, which has a timber finial. To the left of the porch, there is a timber door set into the re-entrant angle, and a square leaded tripartite window. The outer left features a polygonal canted bay with a cill course and a single window in each bay, topped with a cross finial at the roof apex.

The south elevation, or rear, has a glazed timber entrance door leading to a gabled porch on the left, with a central single window and a glazed timber door to a later extension on the right.

On the west side elevation, there is a central bipartite window within a gabled bay, which features open timber fretwork at the gable. The east side elevation has a central tripartite window in a gabled bay, a square plaque to the right, and a polygonal canted bay on the outer right, similar to the north elevation.

The lodge predominantly has plate glass timber windows, although there is a modern window at the rear. The porch and upper panes on the west and east elevations are leaded. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes a ridge stack and circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1999.

Stone steps lead to the entrance of the lodge, flanked by gatepiers with pyramidal caps. The gatepiers are stugged and square-plan, terminating in a low coped quadrant wall topped with timber fencing and a painted timber gate.