Lodge, Carlekemp House, Abbotsford Park, North Berwick

Carlekemp House Lodge, located in Abbotsford Park, North Berwick, is a two-storey gate lodge designed in 1898 by John Kinross in the Cotswold Elizabethan style. The building is constructed from squared and snecked Rattlebag rubble, featuring ashlar dressings. It has moulded margins and mullions, a string course, and a moulded eaves cornice on the projecting east wing.

The east elevation showcases a four-centred doorway set at an angle within a moulded panel in the re-entrant angle. This doorway is topped with an ashlar roof that has a carved shell, and it features a hoodmould and a decorative bronze door handle. Flanking the doorway are bipartite windows on the advanced south wing. The canted end of the east projection connects to the Carlekemp gateway, which includes a projecting wall and a four-centred pedestrian gateway. There is a blank raised panel below the eaves between the chamfered angles.

On the south elevation, there is a low, advanced gabled bay to the right with a small window at ground level and a tripartite window in the gablehead. The re-entrant angle to the right is filled obliquely at ground level. A high boundary wall extends to the left, featuring a gateway. The windows are bi- or tripartite, with a square lead-paned glazing pattern on the casement windows. The building also has decorative square lead guttering and gutter heads, and a square stack set obliquely on the south ridge, adorned with cartouche carvings below the moulded coping. The original cans have been retained, and the roof is covered with Westmoreland slates.

Inside, the lodge retains original woodwork, stone flagging, and corner chimneypieces.

The gates and gatepiers include gabletted ashlar gatepiers to the east of the house, set obliquely with carved details, and a pedestrian gate to the left. The large panelled gates are swept up at the sides with billet moulding. There is a four-centred gateway to the west, and drum gatepiers at the southwest and southeast entrances feature graded cone caps and ball finials.