Keeper's Lodge, Preston Hall is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 2003. Lodge.
Keeper's Lodge, Preston Hall
- WRENN ID
- keen-steeple-hawthorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 February 2003
- Type
- Lodge
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Keeper's Lodge at Preston Hall is a single-storey, three-bay rectangular lodge built in the mid-19th century, featuring rear and later lean-to additions. The front is constructed of coursed ashlar, while the sides and rear are made of random rubble. The front displays pink sandstone ashlar rybats and projecting painted sills.
On the south elevation, the central bay has a painted stone base that supports an open timber porch with a piended roof. The porch features an open gable end with plain barge boards and crossed joists above an arched top entrance. Diamond-pattern trellising is present on each return flanking the panelled timber entrance door and a window.
The east elevation has a later wallhead stack in the center that matches the stack on the rear piend, but most of this elevation is obscured by vegetation. The west elevation has a supporting lower wallhead stack, with the rest not visible as of 2001.
The north elevation, or rear, has a later lean-to extension that conceals the original elevation. The front features 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof consists of paired piended grey slate roofs with zinc ridging. Wallhead stacks have rectangular bases leading to square or octagonal stacks, with projecting architraved neck copes and single cans that have roll-moulded neck details, while the rest are later plain cans.
The interior was not seen in 2000.
The boundary walls, gatepiers, and gates consist of rubble walls with shaped coping heading south, adjoining heavy square ashlar gatepiers. There is a pair of gates for vehicular access and a single pedestrian gate to the left, made of painted wrought iron with speared tops on the lower gate bars. A large pal stone is located to the left of the vehicular gate.
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