Gate Piers And Lodge, East Entrance, Wemyss Castle

The gate piers and lodge at the east entrance of Wemyss Castle were reworked by Sir Robert Lorimer in the late 19th century, incorporating earlier materials. This two-storey lodge house has a distinctive L-plan shape, with the first floor breaking the eaves. It features four bays, crowstepped gables, and dormerheads. The exterior is harled with moulded sandstone margins, and includes a base course and a moulded dividing course.

On the entrance elevation, there is a timber door located in the bay to the right of centre at ground level, accompanied by a window to the outer right and two windows to the left. Above, there are four small windows, each breaking the eaves into dormerheads. All openings are small-pane, timber casement windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks. Decorative cast-iron downpipes lead to rainwater hoppers.

The boundary walls, gatepiers, and gates consist of red sandstone quadrant walls with a base course and moulded ashlar cope. The gatepiers are square in section and banded, alternating between pulvinated and flat designs, topped with a moulded cornice and flat cope that transitions into heraldic carved stone swans. The gates are made of cross-banded timber.