Seton Lodge, 205 Church Street, Tranent

Seton Lodge, located at 205 Church Street in Tranent, is a late 18th century single-storey lodge with four bays. It features a two-storey addition from the early to mid-19th century and a lean-to porch at the rear, situated on sloping ground. The building is constructed of droved sandstone, which is roughly squared and coursed on the west elevation, while the other elevations are in rubble with ashlar dressings.

The west elevation has four bays, with a door located off-centre to the right. The porch is made up of slender quatrefoil section cast-iron columns, a timber cornice, and a painted lead bell-cast roof that rises into a finial featuring a Sun fire insurance plaque. There is a window to the right of the door and additional windows in each bay to the left.

The rear addition is a gabled two-storey block that connects at right angles to the centre of the lodge, extending over the rear elevation and breaking the eaves. The south side is blank, while the north side has a lean-to porch and a window on each floor facing east, along with a blinded attic window. The line of a former addition is visible at ground level to the south, and there is a generous attic window above.

The windows throughout the lodge feature a 12-pane glazing pattern in sash and case style, with a stained glass border pattern on the first-floor window at the rear. The building has ashlar coped skews and droved end stacks, topped with grey slates.

Inside, the original lodge is elegantly furnished with high ceilings. The Drawing Room showcases classical decoration, including a black marble classical chimneypiece, a panelled dado with shutters, and a decorative plaster cornice. Fluted Composite pilasters and an Adamesque frieze adorn the wall recess, and there are five doors for symmetry, two of which are blind. Decorative finger plates are also present. The rear addition includes a staircase, which appears to have been built as a service wing.

The property features rubble coped sandstone retaining walls, with ashlar coping on the west side, complemented by spearhead cast- and wrought-iron railings. The west porch is made of droved ashlar and coped with a carved armorial in the gablehead. There is a boarded gate, and a blocked pointed arch gateway is incorporated into the west wall to the south.