West Lodge, Knock Castle

West Lodge, built in 1904 to the designs of Fryers and Penman of Largs, serves as an asymmetrical, single-story lodge positioned behind a castellated gateway. The construction utilizes stugged red sandstone with polished dressings. The south elevation features a hood-moulded and transomed tripartite window in the projecting gabled bay, with a similar window located below a plaque in the west gable. An octagonal entrance turret with crenellations is set into the re-entrant angle, and a corniced door is framed by a roll-moulded architrave with hood-moulded lights on either side. Shaped skewputts, ball finials, coped stacks, and a slate roof with red ridge tiles contribute to the detailed eaves and gables.

A wide main gateway is flanked by two tall, octagonal castellated gatepiers. Smaller roll-moulded Tudor-arched and crenellated pedestrian gateways are positioned to either side. A low, coped wall extends along curved approaches. Elaborately patterned wrought-iron gates, crafted by the Frazer brothers, Smiths, Largs, complete the composition. The avenue connecting to the shore road was formally opened on March 27, 1904, engineered by Crouch and Hogg of Glasgow. The Largs and Millport Weekly News reported on the structure in April 1904.