Main Gate And Gate-Lodge, Carberry Tower

David Bryce, circa 1860. Single storey and attic Scottish 17th century style gate lodge, with single storey wing (extended later) and with Baronial archway. Squared and snecked, stugged sandstone; ashlar dressings.

LODGE: rounded corners to rectangular plan single storey and attic diminutive tower, corbelled to square above; stone porch abutting archway at centre of N elevation, with gabled dormerhead to 1st floor window, breaking eaves above. Ground floor windows in curved corners

flanking. Bowed, stone roofed stair bay adjoined to S of W gabled elevation with narrow windows. Window in gablehead to roadside with semi-circular pediment. Set-off and crowstepped wallhead stack to S elevation, with gabled single storey wing at ground, 1-bay deep with window to E. Flat-roofed extension built against quadrant and retaining wall to S, with windows inserted therein.

Small-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. Grey slates. Crowstepped gables with beak skewputts.

GATEWAY: segmental archway with beed and hollow surround, and crenellated parapet holding blank tablet to overthrow at centre. Pedestrian gateway flanking to N and corbelled, crenellated lookout turret to N angle, with water spouts.

QUADRANT AND RETAINING WALLS: ashlar gablet coping to rubble quadrant walls, and rubble coping to retaining walls.

GATES: timber gates with decorative wrought-iron grilles and coping, and cast-iron fittings, to driveway and pedestrian gate.