Lodge, Cawder Park, Cadder

David Hamilton, early 19th century. Single storey, 3-bay irregular-plan gate lodge; low, semi-octagonal block to SE corner. Small entrance porch to W side. Large, coursed sandstone ashlar blocks, thin mortar courses. Squared, roughly coursed rubble to rear. Openings to front and sides with ogee-moulded architraves and moulded stone cills. Ashlar base course. Prominent overhanging eaves with long, consoled timber brackets returning to plain barge boards above wallhead (remodelled late 20th century).

S ELEVATION: 3 bays. Advanced central section with large window (small moulded corbelled brackets to cill). Thin banded cornice to windowhead. Pitch-roofed porch recessed to right; segmental arch doorway; timber panelled door. Low semi-octagonal section to left, square window.

W ELEVATION: 4 bays, arranged 1-3, left hand bay set higher than 3-sided, semi-ocatgonal section to right. Large, square window to left block. Segmental-arched windows to outer bays of semi-octagonal section (original windows remain in place, glazing panes painted white). Small, square window to central bay. Timber boarding infill between 2 eaves levels.

N ELEVATION: 2 bays, window and doorway off-centre left with painted strip margins and plain architraves.

E ELEVATION: 4 bays. Advanced, gabled porch to penultimate bay left; pointed-arched opening to centre with ogee-moulded margins and thick, pointed hoodmould. Rectangular opening to far left with label hoodmoulding. 2 windows to right.

INTERIOR: access not obtained, 2004.

Mainly PVCu, lying-pane windows. 2 original, 3 and 5 lying-pane timber-framed windows, painted over. 3-panel wooden door. Piended roofs to main blocks, pitched roof to porch. Grey slates. 2 pairs of tall, octagonal ashlar stacks; rectangular plinth; projecting octagonal cornice with domical caps. Circular clay cans, 1 capped.