Oak Lodge, 14 Inveresk Village Road, Inveresk

Oak Lodge is a circa 1760, two-storey and sunk basement, three-bay villa, located in Inveresk Village Road. A projected entrance bay was added in the later 18th century, followed by alterations circa 1820 and a two-bay extension to the west circa 1860. The villa is faced in biscuit-coloured harling with ashlar dressings, featuring droved bands to the quoins and ground floor windows on the north side. A cill course, moulded cornice, and blocking course are present, along with cornices and moulded cills to some ground floor windows, and scrolled brackets supporting the first-floor windows on the north side.

The north elevation features a pedimented entrance bay with a banded architrave to the pedimented door at the centre, a keystone, and a pulvinated frieze. A carved and painted armorial is set in the pediment, above a two-leaf panelled door with a decorative fanlight. The first-floor window cill rests on the pediment below. The roofline above the pediment projects beyond the eaves, with a moulded cornice, and there are parapets to the return elevations. The outer bays are closely grouped by re-entrant angles at each floor. The south elevation has regular fenestration to each of the three bays, with a door at the centre leading to the sunk basement. Moulded cills and aprons are found on the ground floor windows. Around 1820, the first-floor windows were lengthened and given diminutive cast-iron balconies resting on the cornices of the windows below. The east elevation has a wallhead stack in a gabled bay with an attic window.

The circa 1860 extension comprises two advanced bays to the north and south elevations. The north bays have regular fenestration, with some ground and second-floor windows blinded. A modern conservatory has been added at basement level to the south elevation, featuring tall ground-floor windows and simpler wrought-iron balconies, as well as two first-floor windows. The west elevation is blank. Small-pane glazing is used in the sash and case windows. The grey slate piend roofs are set upon a blocking course with attic skylights. Ashlar end stacks are present.

The interior of the building has been largely altered.

Terrace retaining walls and gatepiers are constructed from sandstone rubble with ashlar coping. A terrace on ground sloping to the south includes several pairs of decorative stone urns, as does the roadside frontage. A single quadrant wall is located by the north entrance. Painted ashlar gatepiers have dentil cornices and ball finials. A cast-iron seat sits on a rubble wall near the gates, alongside substantial timber gates. Sandstone rubble garden walls and wrought-iron railings, enclosing a paved court, are also present at the north elevation’s basement recess.