Edgehead Lodge (former Forester's House), Oxenfoord Castle Estate is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 2003. Lodge.

Edgehead Lodge (former Forester's House), Oxenfoord Castle Estate

WRENN ID
waning-brass-rye
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 February 2003
Type
Lodge
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Mid 19th century. Single storey 3-bay lodge T-plan lodge with later rear extension. Coursed sandstone with earlier random rubble base, dressed and polished sandstone ashlar surrounds and hoodmoulds

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central doorway with rybats and smoothed ashlar margins, later timber door; single window flanking: projecting sill, polished margins with projecting bracketed hoodmould surmounting.

NE, SW & SE ELEVATIONS: not seen, 2000. Concealed behind boundary walls and vegetation.

4-pane timber sash and case bipartite windows to front elevation. Pyramidal piended grey slate roof with zinc ridging. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. 2 tall octagonal ashlar stacks with projecting neck copes, both with single cans (one plain, one replacement).

INTERIOR: not seen, 2001.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: pair of octagonal ashlar gatepiers with corniced tops and pyramidal octagonal caps surmounting; pair of open timber-work gates with long and short ogee topped planks and cross strutting to top, middle and centre. Coursed rubble wall adjacent to gate becoming random rubble wall to S, both topped with semi-circular stone coping.

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