Dovecot, The Lodge, North Berwick

The Lodge is a complex of buildings dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, with later alterations, originally serving as the residence of the Dalrymple family. It was converted into flats in 1969. The building is externally harled and whitewashed, with small-pane sash windows and a slated roof, featuring coped stacks and plain raised skews.

The main Lodge building was constructed in 1783 and consists of two and three-storey blocks arranged in a Z-shaped plan, with a later link built at the northeast re-entrant angle. The west elevation features a projecting three-bay block with a raised, pedimented central bay. A five-sided canted projection, formerly a porchway, is at ground level, flanked by tripartite windows on the ground and first floors; single windows are above. A single window is set into the north gable, while two recessed bays to the right incorporate widely spaced single windows. The east elevation has been significantly altered and extended, with various projections at different heights. A former stable court sits to the right, and a two-storey projecting block from the early 19th century is to the left.

The Wall Tower is composed of two earlier to mid-18th century gabled tenements. One runs north-south, has three storeys, and is situated to the west, while the other is east-west, has two storeys and a cellar. These tenements are linked by a pend with a passage above, and are adjoined to the south by an early 19th century three-storey wing and a block with a piend roof and a canted projection. A quadrant wall connects the Wall Tower to the main Lodge. The east-west tenement, dating from the earlier to mid-18th century, has a four-bay north elevation with an off-centre harled forestair. A small, concealed cellar window is on the west side, with simple windows throughout. The south elevation features a single bay on the west end, a canted bay to the right, and three tall first-floor windows with square lights on the second floor. The north-south tenement, also from the earlier to mid-18th century, has a four-bay north elevation with six-pane ground floor windows. An eastern side abuts a linking passage, while the south elevation includes a single first and second floor window, and a curtain wall at ground floor height on the west side, finished with painted margins. The west elevation has two central windows and an abutting boundary wall at ground level.

Interior features were largely removed during the 1969 conversion, including a stone spiral staircase. A ballroom was originally located in the rear canted bay of the Wall Tower, and kitchens were situated on the ground floor of the Lodge.

A separate 18th century dovecot stands nearby; it's a two-stage lectern dovecot, square in plan measuring 9 feet 6 inches, with a north wall 26 feet high. It is built of harled rubble with a slated pentice roof and a coped parapet that steps down on the sides. A square stone-hooded flight hole is on the south side, with a small doorway leading to a storehouse below. The dovecot accommodates 134 nesting places.

Boundary walls, including a low parapet rubble wall with ashlar coping running along the south green, and large octagonal, painted ashlar gatepiers with ball finials, enclose the property. Rubble garden walls are present to the east, while a rubble wall to the west of the dovecot features brick buttresses. A tunnel runs southwest through a bank, with arched brick openings on the north and south sides, the north archway accessible via a brick-walled gully and is currently partially blocked; both openings are obscured by soil.