South Lodge, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Lodge house. 3 related planning applications.
South Lodge, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park
- WRENN ID
- ragged-cobalt-auburn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1972
- Type
- Lodge house
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
South Lodge at Balbirnie House, built in 1861 by David Bryce, features a single-storey design with an attic and a 20th-century extension to the west. The lodge is constructed from polished and stugged ashlar, showcasing a chamfered base course and partial string courses. The entrance includes a roll-moulded, shouldered doorcase, architraved windows, and stone mullions.
On the south elevation, there is a boarded timber door set in an advanced gabled porch to the right of center, with a window in the outer right bay. The broad gable to the left has a canted window at ground level, which is tripartite and located below a string course. Above, there is an advanced gablet featuring stop cavetto chamfers flanking a monogrammed datestone 'CB 1861' beneath a stepped string course and a tripartite window.
The east elevation shows a gable to the left with a tripartite window beneath a blind tablet, while a lower recessed wing to the right, possibly the extension, is obscured by trees.
On the west elevation, there is a slightly advanced gable to the left with a bipartite window to the right at ground level, and a window to the left, with a tripartite window above at the gablehead. A lower extension with a door and window is located at the outer left and is abutted by a later extension at the northwest.
The lodge features modern plate glass glazing in timber frames, grey slate roofing, and single and multi-flue ashlar stacks with moulded bases and cornices, clay cans, and decorative bargeboarding with drop finials.
The gatepiers and gates consist of six square, rusticated gatepiers adorned with nailhead panels, fluted moulding at the center of the frieze, and a cavetto cornice. Four outer piers topped with obelisk finials flank the main gate, which is accompanied by decorative cast iron lamp bases and arrowhead cast iron gates.
The boundary walls and railings include a single course chamfered ashlar wall with inset arrowhead railings, as well as dressed rubble block boundary walls featuring moulded ashlar gablet coping.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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