Gateway, Woolmet House is a Grade A listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Gateway.
Gateway, Woolmet House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-buttress-thistle
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Type
- Gateway
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1686. Renaissance entrance gateway. Triumphal arch flanked by high classical piers. Ashlar with later random rubble walls flanking. Later stone lion.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: semi-circular archway with projecting keystone on channel jointed piers with shaped imposts; pilasters with cushioned courses, ovolo moulding on capitals with egg and dart ornamentation flanking; entablature: coursed architrave, triglyph detail on frieze, projecting banded cornice, later worn stone lion surmounting; further squared piers with corniced capitals; adjoining smaller setback pillars with cyma reversa capitals, vertical gap for original iron railings to exterior returns.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: as W elevation with less definition and ornamentation.
BOUNDARY WALL (surrounding playing fields): random rubble wall with shaped stone copes and small squared gatepiers.
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