Gatepiers, Rosetta House

The gatepiers at Rosetta House date from the early 19th century and were built for Thomas Young. They consist of a single-storey, four-bay entrance lodge that was originally rectangular but is now L-shaped. The lodge features an advanced door surround and hoodmoulded windows. It is constructed from coursed whinstone with dressed sandstone ashlar tabbed margins and long and short quoins.

On the north (principal) elevation, the lodge has a single storey with four bays. The second bay has an advanced architraved and hood-moulded door surround topped with a stepped rectangular pediment that breaks the eaves. The other bays are regularly placed with hoodmoulded windows. There are remnants of an early gatepier, which may have held a pedestrian entrance, located at the extreme left corner, matched by a similar detail on the return of the adjacent gatepier.

The west and south elevations feature an end wall with a central stack on the left. To the right, the recessed arm of the L-plan is concealed by bushes, while the south elevation is formed by the returns of the lodge.

The east elevation has a tripartite window with stone mullions, a drip sill, and a hoodmould to the right, while the rest of the elevation is blind. The windows have 12 lying panes within timber sash and case frames, with some six-pane flanking lights. The roof is an overhanging piended grey slate with swept eaves and exposed timber bracketing, featuring replacement lead flashings and ridging. There is a two-pane cast-iron Carron light aligned with the main door, and painted cast-iron rainwater goods with partially concealed gutters. The roof has a pair of square stacks linked on a pedestal at the center, with wide moulded neck copes and mismatched cans, along with a later single stack on the west elevation of a similar style.

The interior was not seen in 2002.

The gatepiers consist of a pair of tall square ashlar structures, rusticated on the east and west elevations, with a moulded band below a plain squared capital. The left pier may have been re-sited closer to the lodge, as the left return shows remnants of a smaller pier that may have held a pedestrian entrance gate. The pair now serves as a wide principal entrance for caravans and cars.