The Lodge And Gateway, Thurso Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Gate lodge.
The Lodge And Gateway, Thurso Castle
- WRENN ID
- white-lancet-peregrine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Possibly Donald Leed, Architect, Thurso, 1870-80.
Exaggerated baronial arched gateway linked to square gate
lodge by crenellated wall. All sneck coursed rubble with
ashlar dressings.
Lodge; square 2-storey, 2-bay dwelling with square angle
turret projecting at SE corner and rising 1 storey above
wallhead. Corbelled and crenellated wallheads; corbelled and
crenellated angle bartizans masking flues; extensive cable
moulding decoration, including angle margins. Dogtooth
decoration to window lintels 2-pane glazing.
Modern sun parlour masks south elevation ground floor;
rendered and lines as ashlar with crenellated wallhead to
flat roof.
Gateway; similar style as lodge, cusped high round headed
arch with flanking buttresses, corbelled and crenellated
wallhead and corbelled and crenellated angle bartizans.
Coped rubble quadrants with terminal end piers detailed
as bartizans.
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