East Lodge Fishing Hut, Murthly Castle Policies

The East Lodge Fishing Hut at Murthly Castle Policies is a small, picturesque structure likely built in the mid to late 19th century. It is a single-storey, rectangular building with a pyramidally-roofed design, featuring rustic details such as an oversized projecting gabled porch with a monumental carved lintel. The gabletted windowheads break the eaves, and the original interior remains intact. The hut is situated to the northeast of a separately listed earlier fountain, on raised ground that overlooks the River Tay within the parkland of Murthly Castle. It is constructed from coursed squared and snecked rubble with stugged dressings, and the entrance features a two-leaf door made of chevron-patterned rustic half-round timber.

The entrance elevation faces northwest and includes a projecting lintel above the doorway that leads to a timber-lined porch with flanking benches. Each of the southwest and northeast elevations has a small gabletted window, while the southeast elevation is blank, featuring a tall stack that straddles the centre of the gablehead. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with grey slates, topped with a ball and spike finial, and there is a replacement brick stack. The eaves are deeply overhanging and swept, with exposed rafters.

Inside, the fishing hut retains a good interior, including a honeycomb pattern stone flag floor. There is a monumental stone fireplace made of pink sandstone, featuring bowed supports and a large stone mantel, with inner stonework that may be later and is also corbelled with bowed supports. The walls and roof are lined with decoratively set rustic half-round timber, which incorporates built-in wall recesses and benches.