Carbet Castle Lodge, 7 Camphill Road, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

Carbet Castle Lodge, dating to circa 1866 and designed by Thomas Saunders Robertson, is a single-storey and attic building with a three-bay, L-plan layout constructed in a Baronial style. The lodge is built of lightly stugged snecked rubble with ashlar detailing on a canted window and doorpiece, and has a slate roof. A stepped base course forms the foundation. The windows are predominantly two-pane sash and case, set within roll-moulded architraves. Notable features include saddleback skew and bracketed skewputts, elongated stacks with deeply moulded coping and original cans, and decorative ridge brattishing. An unsympathetic box-dormer has been added to the rear.

The south elevation is dominated by a round entrance tower reached by five steps. The tower has a pair of doors with a fanlight; a Grimond armorial crest sits within the pediment above the door. A window on the first floor of the tower has chamfered reveals, a mannered lintel and hoodmould, and is surmounted by a corbelled drum parapet with blind quatrefoils. The conical roof of the tower is clad with banded and fish-scale slates. Four wrought-iron finialled lucarnes and an elaborate weathervane finial further embellish the roofline. An advanced gable features a canted window, while a blind traceried window with a hoodmould sits at the gablehead, topped by a fleur-de-lis stone finial. A dormerhead window set back to the right of the entrance has a blank shield, and a cast-iron crenellated rainwater head is also present.

Three gatepiers, built of pale gray stone, mark the entrance. They have rock-faced and moulded bases, polished Peterhead granite noon-shafts with brown foliate capitals, and pyramidal caps with trefoils. Plain modern wrought-iron gates are set between coped stone walls in a matching style.

A wall extending to the right is stepped and coped. A sculpted lion is incorporated into the wall, along with nook-shafts at the angles. A robustly moulded niche on the west elevation is flanked by colonettes with sculpted capitals and features a cusped round-headed arch with a mask keystone. Flanking buttresses are present, along with an empty shield and a hoodmould. A retaining wall at the west curves northward.

Carbet Castle, which has since been demolished, was designed for the Grimmonds by T S Robertson from 1866 and stood on the site of Kerbet House. The lodge is attributed to Robertson, though original drawings are not available. Carbet Lodge occupies a prominent location at the head of Gray Street.