Gate Piers And Lodge, East Entrance, Wemyss Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Lodge.

Gate Piers And Lodge, East Entrance, Wemyss Castle

WRENN ID
fallen-loft-sage
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Type
Lodge
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Reworked by Sir Robert Lorimer late 19th century, incorporating earlier fabric. 2-storey with 1st floor breaking eaves, 4-bay, L-plan lodge house with crowstepped gables and dormerheads. Harled with moulded sandstone margins. Base course and moulded dividing course.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber door in bay to right of centre at ground with window to outer right and 2 windows to left, 4 windows above, each braking eaves into dormerhead. All openings small.

Small-pane, timber casement windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hopper.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: red sandstone quadrant walls with base course and moulded ashlar cope. Square section, banded (alternating pulvinated and flat) gatepiers (see Notes) with moulded cornice and flat cope giving way to heraldic carved stone swans. Cross-banded timber gates.

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