Lodge, Rockville

J Anderson Hamilton, 1859. 2-storey picturesque gate

lodge with pend and single storey side projection, in

original Baronial style. Ashlar; stepped string courses.

Crowstepped gables.

ENTRANCE ELEVATION: 2-storey gabled bay to left with

segmentally arched pend; roll-mouldings to pend

surround with decorative date panel and inscribed ribbon

above. Stepped string course encloses and passes under

tripartite window. Corbelled, canted oriel at centre with

stone roof and carved panel above. Roll-moulded doorway

under pend to right. Narrow gabled bay, set obliquely

to right of pend bay with narrow ground floor windows

and carved shield in gable. Single storey gabled bay to

right with tripartite at ground and blind slit in wider

gable above. Tall square stack to outer right wallhead.

REAR ELEVATION: gabled bay with pend, as above, to right

with gable moulding to narrow 1st floor window to armorial

panel and flanking roundels, with inscribed motto, above

pend, and clasping roll-moulded to pend. Carved floral

shields flanking 1st floor window and in apex. 2 gabled

bays set obliquely at left (as above); blank gableheads

with doorway to courtyard at ground.

OUTER (FIELD) ELEVATION: battered with set-off wallheads

stack at centre; no openings.

Small-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows.

Slate roofs. Variety of decorative finials.

Gablet coped rubble retaining wall with doorway to

courtyard at rear, forming triangle with rising ground to

left. Low rubble retaining wall to driveway.