Gatelodge and Gatpiers, North Esk Lodge, North High Street, Musselburgh

GATEPIERS Mid 19th century Jacobean, painted ashlar with

advanced base course, panelled with chamfered angles, small

cornice with blocking course, topped by panelled obelisks

with ball finials. Pedestrian gate on right with raised

margins, surmounted by Dutch gablet.

LODGE - early 19th century single storey, built into high,

rubble garden wall, 2 windows open on to street. Piended

slate roof, harled walls with raised window margins.

6 pane sash windows. Low chimney stack at centre of ridge

from which rises remaining concave sided octagonal,

Jacobean chimney shaft. Return elevation, sandstone rubble

with 1 bipartite window.

HOUSE - circa 1835/40, large elaborately detailed neo-

Jacobean polished ashlar villa. South elevation 2-storey

near symmetrical composition, 5 bays wide. Advanced

slightly off centre gabled entrance bay, projecting

doorpiece with cornice and Jacobean stonework pediment,

stepped string course above and ornate Dutch gable with

concave sided octagonal chimney shaft at apex, scrolled

skew ends. Steps to door flanked by ball finials. 2

architraved and corniced windows each side ground and 1st

floors unevenly spaced, those at 1st floor with pedimented

gablets. Return gable has one step, skews with scrolled

ends and fleurs de lis finial, projecting tripartite

windows ground and 1st floors with strapwork on 1st floor

apron and pierced parapet above cornice, single attic

window above with strap work head. Slightly lower wing to

rear with 1 window ground and 1st floor as on entrance

front. Lower matching 2-storey 2 bay link to wing added by

Lorimer in 1904, which is part 2 storeys with attics and

partly 3 storeys at right angles with gable to front.

Total front 7 windows wide, unevenly spaced, of which 2 on

each floor of gable end. Large square bay window with

cornice and parapet in centre of 2 storey section, which

has 3 piended square dormers. All windows architraved

and single pane sash. Both sections ashlar with ridge

slate roofs.