Whatton Lodge, Hill Road, Gullane

Whatton Lodge is a two-storey house with a single-storey and basement wing, built in 1910 by J B Dunn, showcasing Cotswold vernacular architecture. The exterior features squared and snecked Rattlebag rubble with contrasting dressings, and the first floor is subtly corbelled out at intervals.

On the southeast elevation, there is a gabled door bay at the center that projects from a broader recessed gable to the left, with a higher gable to the right. The door has a chamfered surround and a segmentally arched ashlar lintel, with a roll-moulded square sundial panel above and a small bipartite window below the gablehead. To the left of the gable, there is a stair window with transoms and stepped cill levels. The outer bay to the left is recessed and features a mullioned and transomed tripartite window at the ground level, beneath low eaves and a flat-roofed, slate-hung dormer. A four-light window is located on the first floor of the gable to the right of center, with irregular bipartites below and small lights under the eaves of the outer right bay. An advanced piend-roofed service wing is situated to the right, set lower on the sloping site.

The northeast elevation presents a gabled frontage with a broad, semi-circular arched porch recess, offset to the right, which contains a small-paned tripartite door. To the outer left gable, there is a splayed, canted, piend-roofed six-light bay at ground level. The advanced outer bay to the right has chamfered angles at ground level with windows and is corbelled to a square above. The outer bay to the left features a window in a chamfered bay. The single-storey and basement wing is recessed to the left, with a variety of two and three-light windows, including mullion and transom designs at ground level. A coped stone parapet leads to a flight of steps parallel to the house, which leads to the arched porch from the terrace below.

The sash and case windows have a small-pane glazing pattern, and the stair window features square lead-paning. The roof is covered with Caithness slates, and there are stone stacks and swept eaves.

Inside, the lodge includes panelled doors, decorative cast-iron grates, unusual Vitruvian scroll plaster cornices, and brass door fittings. The property is also accompanied by a rubble-coped retaining wall and circular section gatepiers.