Forester's Lodge, Leslie House

This is an early 19th-century forester's lodge, altered and extended in 1929 by Gillespie and Scott. It is a single-storey building with a piended (hipped) roof, originally three bays wide, with a recessed extension to the right and two further extensions to the rear. The windows are pointed-arch at the front, round-arched on the sides and rear. The lodge is constructed from squared and snecked whinstone with contrasting quoins and voussoirs, and an eaves course; the sides and rear are harled.

The east (main) elevation features a two-leaf wooden door within an advanced, pedimented surround, with windows in the flanking bays. A recessed, piended-roof extension is on the right, with a window at its centre. The south elevation has a window to the left of centre and a modern rooflight. A recessed, piended-roof extension is to the left with a window. The north elevation displays a window in the extension, and a modern rooflight in the original lodge building. The west elevation has three piend-roofed extensions and a modern dormer window in the original building.

The windows have a 2-pane with upper light glazing pattern, in fixed and top-hopper style, with sash and case windows to the sides and rear. The roof is covered with grey slates, and features coped ashlar stacks with cans and exposed eaves under a swept roof, with a central ridge stack to the original lodge.

The gatepiers are of coped ashlar with ball finials, and are accompanied by random rubble boundary walls.

Originally part of the policies (designed landscapes) surrounding Leslie House, the lodge forms a group with Leslie House, West Lodge, West Gate, Duke’s Lodge and Duke's Lodge Gates. Records relating to the 1929 alterations are held in the James Gillespie and Scott Archive at St Andrews University Library.