1 and 2 Lodge Street, Haddington

Possibly dating to the early 18th century with later 18th century additions and alterations and early 21st century interior alterations. 1 and 2 Lodge Street is a two-storey, three-bay, L-plan former townhouse at the centre of the burgh of Haddington. The building was adapted and used as a Freemasons' hall from around the late 18th to the late 19th centuries. The north (street) elevation has an archway to a pend (Roughead Close) leading to 2A Lodge Street (see separate listing, LB34247) to the left and an off-centre doorway flanked by two small windows to the right. In the left reveal of the archway is an engaged and painted stone column with a base and moulded capital. The street elevation has painted render over rubble and the rear elevation is rubble. The first floor has a central Venetian window with a corbelled cill and deep pediments over four colonnettes. This window is flanked by two separate single windows.

The window and door openings have raised and painted dressed stone margins. There is a smooth rendered base course and two iron pattress plates (building ties) over the central window. The roofs are slated and there are stone skews. On the west end of the roof ridge is a pair of plain chimney cans with no chimney stack. There is a brick chimney stack on the rear section.

The windows are timber sash and case. The first floor windows are multi-pane and the ground floor windows are single pane. There is a twelve pane window at the rear. The Venetian window has Y-tracery timber astragals in its upper sash and the side lights have diamond pattern astragals.

The interior of the building was seen in 2017. The ground floor was altered around 2006 including partitions to create office and storage spaces. There is some earlier timber boarding on the front wall of the ground floor. There is an earlier 19th century curved stone stair at the rear which has a later 20th century timber handrail to the first floor landing area. There is a small room with a plain fire surround and a flat press at the rear part of the first floor.

The majority of the first floor has a large former masonic meeting hall to the street side. This room has a flat ceiling above a deep dentilled cornice and curved combed detail. At the centre of the ceiling there is a small dome and this is flanked by two octagonal metal ventilator caps. There is a stone fire surround with a cast iron insert framed by a large timber surround with a shaped pediment on the south wall of the room. There is a round arched niche in the east wall and a large recessed timber bookcase in the west wall. There are two metal tie rods across the room. A six panel entrance door has a small trap door at eye level which was used to present rings to allow entry.