Lanark Lodge With Stable Buildings, Bridgend, Duns

Lanark Lodge with Stable Buildings, Bridgend, Duns

Built in 1860, this is a large 2-storey Baronial villa constructed in squared, snecked and stugged cream sandstone with ashlar dressings. It has been subsequently converted to a hospice with out-of-character modern linking additions connecting it to the stable buildings. The stonework features stop-chamfered arrises and a string course above the ground floor.

The north elevation, formerly the entrance front, displays an advanced gabled entrance bay to the centre right, though the original doorway has been removed and obscured by a modern glass link to a new single-storey range. Above this is a first-floor window with stop-roll-moulded reveals, framing colonnettes and a segmental pediment with central bracket and star finial. To the left is a bay with ground and first-floor windows, the upper breaking the eaves with a pedimented dormerhead. The centre-left bay contains a round 3-stage stair tower set in a re-entrant angle, featuring a large mullioned and transomed window with moulded architrave stepping over a square date tablet inscribed 1860. Above this is a rope-moulded corbel course, and another window breaking the eaves with a pedimented dormerhead and rosette finial. This tower terminates in a tall conical roof with wrought-iron weathervane and fish-scale slates. The outer right bay has blind windows to each floor and a bracketed apex stack. An advanced single-storey 2-bay service range extends to the left, with a gabled right bay containing a bipartite window at ground level and a window in the gablehead, and a pair of windows to the left.

The west elevation comprises three bays with gabled dormerheads above the eaves and a chamfered apex stack at the centre. The left bay has bipartite windows to each floor, the centre bay has single windows, and the right bay has a door at ground level and a blind window to the first floor. A modern conservatory, replacing an older one, conceals the centre and right bays at ground level.

The south (garden) elevation displays four bays with gabled dormerheads above the eaves. The broad outer left bay is slightly advanced and gabled; at the centre is a 2-storey canted window with cornice and parapet, with a small window in the gablehead. Three flanking bays to the right are symmetrical, with the centre bay slightly advanced and broader at ground level, featuring a tripartite window and a bipartite window at first floor with a tablet in the gablehead. The flanking bays have windows to each floor, with the left one converted to a door at ground level. A 2-bay service range to the right comprises a left bay with a ground-floor window and a decorative timber dormer with bracketed open pedimented dormerhead and wrought-iron finial, and a bipartite window to the right with a gabled dormerhead.

The east elevation features a projecting M-gabled single-storey range at ground level largely obscured by later additions linking to the stable range, with a valley infilled by a slate-hung roof extension. The main block has a blank M-gable with apex stacks.

Throughout the villa, windows are plate glass timber sash and case, with 12-pane examples in the service range. Other external details include crowstepped skews, scrolled skewputts, grey slates, battered coping to ashlar stacks, and decorative wrought-iron rainwater goods.

The interior retains decorative plaster cornices and a stained glass fanlight in the hall, along with a stone turnpike stair, now enclosed. The building has acquired a municipal ambience following conversion to hospice use.

The stable range and linking wall form a single-storey and attic L-plan range that has been much altered, extended and converted to a social club. The link wall joins to the service range with two slapped glazed openings.

The north elevation of the stable range has a gable to the right with an inserted tripartite window at ground level and a panel in the gablehead, with a single set-back bay to the left now featuring a modern lobby at ground level.

The west elevation comprises four bays with centre bays grouped together. A window at ground level appears to the left, while the link building obscures the remaining bays. First-floor windows break the eaves with gabled dormerheads.

The south elevation has a gable to the left with an inserted tripartite window in the gablehead, and a single slightly set-back bay to the right, obscured at ground level by a large modern extension, with the link wall to the left.

The east elevation is blank, with an advanced gable to the left. Windows throughout are 12-pane timber sash and case. External details match the main house, comprising crowstepped skews, scrolled skewputts, grey slates.