North Lodges, Megginch Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Castle, lodge.
North Lodges, Megginch Castle
- WRENN ID
- plain-minaret-swallow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Castle, lodge
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1794, extended 1933; gatepiers moved later 20th century. Pair of single storey, 3-bay gothic lodge houses with crenellated screen walls. Rubble with ashlar dressings. Ogee-headed windows. Hoodmoulds; stone mullions and chamfered reveals.
NW (ROAD) ELEVATIONS: centre carriage entrance with engaged trefoil-section columns flanked by screen walls each with ogee-headed bipartite window below blind quatrefoil panel, lower screenwalls beyond with small gunloops terminating with small octagonal ashlar piers and low saddleback-coped quadrants.
SE ELEVATIONS: as NW elevations but without lower screenwall extensions; cottage to left with door and window in lower later bays to outer left; cottage to right with door in set-back lean-to bay at outer right.
DRIVEWAY ELEVATIONS: each with boarded timber door below consoled stone canopy to outer bay and small deep-set bipartite to inner bay.
6-pane glazing pattern in casement windows and 10-pane glazing pattern in top-opening windows, all timber. Grey slates. Coped harled stacks, some cans.
GATEPIERS: slender quatrefoil-section gothic piers with large cornice and tall spired finials.
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