Marybank Lodge

Marybank Lodge is a house dating from the later 18th century, originally a 3-bay, 2-storey and attic building, with a later 19th-century, 3-bay, single-storey and attic wing added to the east gable. The original portion of the house is harled with chamfered ashlar margins, while the later wing is built of tooled ashlar. The older section features a central door within a gabled bay, with blocked detailing to the jambs, a central first-floor window, and a small apex chimney. A large, projecting, piended porch has been added. There are two windows on the ground floor, in the west bay, and two piended dormers. The windows are fitted with pane glazing. The later wing incorporates three piended dormers that rise through the wallhead, and it has 12-pane glazing. Other features include crowsteps, corniced end stacks and slate roofs. A lean-to extension has been added to the rear. A datestone from the later 18th century is said to lie beneath the harling. Marybank Lodge was originally a Manse, associated with a church now in ruins located below the house. The property was subsequently taken over by Sir John Lochart Ross of Balnagown, who built a new Manse and renamed the original building Marybank.