Gatepiers, Rosetta House

Early 19th century for Thomas Young. Single storey, 4-bay, L-plan entrance lodge (formerly rectangular) with advanced door surround and hoodmoulded windows. Coursed whinstone with dressed sandstone ashlar tabbed margins and long and short quoins.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: single storey, 4-bay comprising advanced architraved and hood-moulded door-surround to 2nd bay with stepped rectangular pediment breaking eaves; regularly placed hoodmoulded bays to rest of elevation. Remnants of early gatepier (possibly held pedestrian entrance) adjacent to angle on extreme left, matched by similar detail to return of adjacent gatepier (see below).

W & S ELEVATION: end wall with central stack to left; to right, recessed arm of L-plan concealed by bushes; S elevation formed by returns.

E ELEVATION: tripartite window with stone mullions, drip sill and hoodmould to right of elevation (remainder of elevation blind).

12 lying pane glazing within timber sash and case windows; some 6-pane flanking lights. Overhanging piended grey slate roof with swept eaves and exposed timber bracketing; replacement lead flashings and ridging to most; 2-pane cast-iron Carron light aligned with main door. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods with partially concealed gutters. Pair of square stacks, bridge linked on pedestal to centre of roof with wide moulded neck copes and mismatched cans; later single stack to W elevation of similar style.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2002.

GATEPIERS: pair of tall square ashlar gatepiers, rusticated to E and W elevations with moulded band below plain squared capital; left pier possibly re-sited nearer to lodge as left return shows remnants of lesser pier (similar to that on lodge) which may have held pedestrian entrance gate; pair now form wide principal entrance for caravans and cars.