Gate-House And Garage, The Pleasance, Duncur Road, Gullane

The gate-house and garage at The Pleasance on Duncur Road in Gullane were designed by Sydney Mitchell in 1902. This two-storey building features a rambling plan in the English vernacular style, with the first floor breaking the eaves at intervals. The exterior is harled with a battered base course, an ashlar band course near the entrances, and tile-hanging on some gable heads. The windows are timber mullioned and multi-light, with irregular openings.

On the southeast elevation, there is a timber-bracketed canopy over a doorway that is set at an angle in the advanced bay of the main house. The door has a small-paned upper panel in a roll-moulded surround. To the outer right, a service cottage is linked to the main gable by a single-storey block with eaves that sweep down and two flat-roofed dormers. The first floor jetties out over the outer gable. To the left of the door, there are full-height, harled, flat-roofed re-entrant bays that break the eaves, featuring a chamfered outer angle at the ground and a segmentally curved recess above the ground floor. There are also recessed bays to the left with a window at ground level.

The west elevation includes a loggia at the center under a swept roof, with a doorway and an arched window behind it. Full-height projecting bays flank the breaking eaves; the left bay is flat-roofed and rectangular, while the right is canted with a piend roof. An archway leads to an exterior inglenook on the right, which has a broad, harled battered stack that breaks the eaves above. The outer bays are recessed, and there is a service court with irregular bays to the north. All windows feature a small-pane glazing pattern, primarily casements, with pink tiles and tile-hanging. The harled stacks have ashlar coping.

The gate-house and garage have a rectangular plan and are harled, with a gabled garage situated to the east of the house. It features a diminutive piend-roofed tower adjoining the north gable. The south gable has a large, tall window, while the west elevation has altered entrance openings and a piend-roofed dormer. The north corner has a chamfered angle that is corbelled to a square above a small light. The tower has a wide ashlar archway with a keystone, panelled timber doors, and decorative carved details. There are two square lights above under the eaves with an ashlar cill course. The building showcases a variety of glazing and is finished with pink tiles. The boundary walls are harled and have ashlar coping.