Lodge, Rockville

Rockville Lodge is a picturesque gate lodge built in 1859 by J Anderson Hamilton, designed in the original Baronial style. It is a two-storey structure with a pend and a single-storey side projection, featuring ashlar stonework and stepped string courses, along with crowstepped gables.

The entrance elevation includes a two-storey gabled bay on the left, which has a segmentally arched pend. The pend features roll-mouldings around its surround, a decorative date panel, and an inscribed ribbon above. A stepped string course encloses and passes under a tripartite window. At the center, there is a corbelled, canted oriel with a stone roof and a carved panel above. To the right of the pend, there is a roll-moulded doorway. A narrow gabled bay is set obliquely to the right of the pend bay, with narrow ground floor windows and a carved shield in the gable. The right side features a single-storey gabled bay with a tripartite window at ground level and a blind slit in the wider gable above. A tall square stack is positioned on the outer right wallhead.

The rear elevation mirrors the entrance with a gabled bay and pend to the right, which has gable moulding above a narrow first-floor window. An armorial panel and flanking roundels with an inscribed motto are located above the pend, which is clasped by roll-moulding. Carved floral shields flank the first-floor window and are also found in the apex. Two gabled bays are set obliquely on the left, featuring blank gableheads and a doorway leading to the courtyard at ground level.

The outer (field) elevation is battered with set-off wallheads and a stack at the center, with no openings. The sash and case windows have a small-pane glazing pattern, and the roofs are covered with slate. Decorative finials add variety to the design. A gablet coped rubble retaining wall with a doorway leads to the courtyard at the rear, forming a triangle with the rising ground to the left, along with a low rubble retaining wall along the driveway.