The Lodge, High Street, Aberlady

This is a mid-19th century house, with additions dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, prominently situated set back from High Street in Aberlady. The house is built of squared and snecked stugged sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring a base course, entablature, cornice, and chamfered arrises. A tower projects centrally.

The north elevation showcases an entrance within an advanced rectangular porch at the base of the tower. The porch has a deeply chamfered surround, a panelled door with a three-pane fanlight, and decorative blind slit openings on either side. The porch mitres to a polygonal tower, which breaks the eaves with a turret and narrow single windows to each of its five faces. A cornice and mannered parapet with blind slits tops the tower. Two slightly advanced window bays flank the porch, each featuring timber mullioned tripartite windows and a string course. Single windows are at the first floor, with a cornice and coped parapet echoing the tower's style. A later recessed single-bay wing was added to the east around 1910, with a window at the first floor and a similar parapet.

The south elevation presents three widely spaced bays, with a modern sun-porch addition to the ground floor doorway. A very narrow window is to the right at ground level, and another to the outer bay. A canted bay with a cornice and blocking course is to the outer left. A tall stair window with painted glass is above the doorway, alongside a narrow window to the right, and further windows to the outer right and left. A later wing extends to the east, featuring windows at both floors.

The west elevation has a garden conservatory addition to the left at ground level, and a blocked window to the right. Two blocked windows are at the first floor.

The fenestration features sash and case windows with a variety of glazing patterns, including twelve-pane and six-pane configurations. The roof is covered in grey slates, with ashlar coped skews and skewputts. Ashlar coped stacks are present, some reduced in height; polygonal stacks remain on the wing.

Inside, plasterwork cornices and ceiling roses from the mid-19th century are preserved in the front ground floor rooms, while frieze decoration is likely from the later 19th century and includes a monogram "IHP," also found in the stained glass of the turret door and ironwork of the gates. A cast-iron stair bannister is present, along with a figurative painted glass stair window in a pre-Raphaelite style.

The stables gatepiers and iron railings date from the early 20th century, comprising two gateways, each with four gatepiers with cornices and ball finials. Gates bear the monogram "IHP", and feature decorative wrought-iron railings. Adjacent to the road, a gabled stable block has a hayloft door at first floor level and two bull's-eye windows with elaborate fretted cast-iron grilles. Planning permission was granted in 1991 to raise the rear wall in stone.