Kingsknowes Lodge Including Entrance Gateway And Garden Walls, Tweed Road

Kingsknowes Lodge, including the entrance gateway and garden walls, was likely designed by William Hay between 1868 and 1869. This former gate lodge is a two-storey, three-bay building with a square plan, situated in a prominent open location. It features a steeply sloping asymmetrical roof and a notable turreted dormer on the eastern side. The lodge has overhanging bracketed eaves, a tripartite window, and round-headed windows in decorative timber dormers. The exterior is made of neatly coursed whinstone, with droved and stugged red sandstone quoins and margins, and chamfered arrises around the openings. There is a small glazed brick outhouse attached to the north.

The windows are predominantly 6-over-1 pane timber sash and case, with a late 20th-century timber entrance door that includes a fanlight. An early 21st-century alteration includes timber cladding and a plastic window in a former recessed opening on the east side. The steep gambrel roof is covered with grey slate and slopes significantly lower to the east, featuring cast-iron rooflights and lead ridges and flashings, as well as a truncated ashlar ridge stack. The building also has cast-iron gutters and downpipes.

The entrance gateway and walls consist of a stepped and coped red sandstone ashlar wall to the north, which includes a decorative pedestrian side gate made of timber and cast iron to the left, with 'Kingsknowes' carved into the stonework lintel. There is a return wall that connects the gate lodge to a decorative timber gate, and low-level half-round coped rubble walls that enclose the garden.