North Entrance, Balgone House

The North Entrance of Balgone House, designed by J Anderson Hamilton and dated 1862, is a single-storey gate lodge built in a Baronial style. It features pink bull-faced squared rubble with grey ashlar dressings, while the northern elevation is finished in grey rubble. The building has crowstepped gables and chamfered arrises around its openings.

On the south elevation, there is a three-bay gabled porch at the center, located in the re-entrant angle formed by the outer gabled bay to the right. The porch has a bead and hollow door surround with a carved armorial panel in a pediment above. To the right, a projecting rectangular window features a stone mullioned bipartite design, with thistle and urn finials, and narrow windows above in the gable head. The outer bay to the left has a single window that just breaks the eaves, also set in a pediment.

The north elevation includes an advanced steeply gabled bay to the outer right with a narrow gable head window, as well as two single windows in recessed bays at the center and to the right, each with pediments that bear carvings similar to the door.

Both the east and west elevations have an additional gabled bay with a single window breaking the eaves, while the west elevation features a tripartite window in the gabled bay with a carved date panel above. There is a flat-roofed harled extension on the east elevation.

The sash and case windows have a small pane glazing pattern, and the building has moulded coping on the ashlar stacks, grey slates, and decorative finials including crescent, thistle, fleurs-de-lys, and stars. The skewputts are also decorative.

The entrance arch is a tall, arched ashlar gateway with a chamfered surround and a shaped overthrow that bears a ball finial at the center, flanked by buttresses on the west side. The quadrants to the east are made of bull-faced squared rubble, stepped up to the archway, which includes a pedestrian doorway in the north quadrant with gablet coping. The entrance is completed with ashlar piers topped with ball finials and later wrought-iron gates.