Lodges And Gates, Main Entrance, Cullen House

The lodges and gates at the main entrance of Cullen House were designed by James Adam in 1767, with later additions made to the lodges. The entrance features a pedimented polished ashlar triumphal arch supported by fluted Roman Ionic columns. This arch is connected to the flanking gate lodges by simple harled screen walls, each with a single pedestrian entrance.

The central round-headed archway includes corniced fluted impost blocks, a moulded arch ring, and patera in each spandrel. The entablature displays a festooned and swagged frieze, featuring an earl's coronet with an "S" in the tympanum of the pediment, which is surmounted by a lion rampant, with a single recumbent lion on each outer edge. The pedestrian entrances are bracketted and corniced, with moulded and acanthus detailed jambs. The screen wall has a corniced blocking course that is raised and swagged above the pedestrian entrances.

The gates consist of a pair of spearheaded cast-iron carriage gates adorned with a Greek key pattern band and scallop decoration, along with matching single gates that close the pedestrian entrances. The gate lodges are advanced single-storey structures with three bays, each featuring a central doorway on the south side of the linking screen wall. Both lodges have later rear additions and dormerheads that break the wallhead. They are finished in harled material with ashlar margins and dressings, and have deep corniced eaves bands that are interrupted by later piended dormers. The windows feature 9 and 12-pane glazing, and the buildings have coped ridge and wallhead stacks, some of which are later brick additions. The roofs are covered with slightly bellcast slate.