Ericht Lodge, Ashgrove Road, New Rattray

Ericht Lodge is a house dating from around 1835 to 1840, likely built upon earlier fabric and subsequently enlarged. It is a two-storey and single-storey building with an attic and partial basement, comprising four bays arranged in an ‘L’ shape with gabled elevations, and exhibiting fine interior detail. The base course is partly visible. The front is harled with painted quoin strips and margins, while the rear is constructed of snecked rubble with dressed margins.

The south-west (principal) elevation features three symmetrical bays to the right, with a later gable added to the left. A gabled bay is centrally located on the right, featuring a panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight above, and a jettied first floor with a single window. Flanking bays each have swept, polygonal-roofed canted windows that break through the eaves into set-back dormer windows. A gabled bay is on the outer left with a window at each floor level.

The south-east elevation is another gabled side, featuring a window to the right at ground level, and a later brick stack projecting centrally. The north-east (rear) elevation is asymmetrical, with a variety of features including a swept-roof dormer window abutting a gabled bay approximately in the centre, and a lower projecting bay to the right with a part-glazed timber door topped with a decoratively-astragalled fanlight, and a large window at ground level. To the left, an ancillary building projects beyond. The north-west elevation is blank, with a lower-pitched roofed bay on the outer left.

Windows are timber sash and case, with 4, 9, 12, and 16 panes, and plate glass. The roof is covered with small grey slates. The chimney stacks are coped ashlar, some with diamond-aligned details, and topped with polygonal cans. There is plain bargeboarding and overhanging eaves, along with cast-iron downpipes fitted with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

The interior retains a good decorative scheme, including decorative plasterwork cornices, compartmented ceilings and friezes, black marble, timber, and cast-iron fireplace surrounds, some with cast-iron inserts. Panelled timber shutters and cast-iron radiators are also present. A later timber-balustered, dog-leg staircase is featured, along with a stair window with coloured margins and etched panes. The hall has a part-glazed screen door and partly stone flagged flooring. An inner hall, which was once an external wall, has a decoratively-astragalled window.

An ancillary building, formerly a wash house and now converted into a dwelling, is constructed of slated, squared and snecked rubble, and features a winding timber stair, a timber fireplace, and a 'Lava' china handbasin by Shanks & Co Ltd, Barrhead, Scotland.

The property is enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble boundary walls, which includes a pedimented pedestrian entrance with a timber gate.