Gates And Gateway, South Lodge, Duns Castle

The gates and gateway at South Lodge, Duns Castle, date from the early 19th century and have undergone later alterations. This asymmetrical French Gothic entrance screen features a lodge house to the northwest. It is constructed from squared sandstone with droved ashlar dressings, while the rear is made of rubble.

On the southwest elevation, there is a round-arched carriage entrance at the center, flanked by buttresses and a corbelled string course. Octagonal shafts with ogeed fish-scale designs, topped with caps, support a crowstepped gable that has a ball finial and a small round-arched opening above a rectangular tablet. There are roll-topped coped walls on either side. To the right, there is a square-planned pavilion with an ogee roof and a round-arched bipartite window in the center. To the left of center is a circular-section, two-storey tower with a corbelled parapet and an arrow window on the first floor. The outer left wall has roll-topped coping, a shouldered wallhead stack, and a bipartite round-arched window.

The northwest elevation consists of four bays. There is a boarded door to the inner right, and the inner left bay is advanced with a timber mullioned window. A window is located to the outer right, and there is a timber mullioned window in the outer left bay at the ground level of the tower, which is effectively in a re-entrant angle.

On the southeast elevation, there is a later monopitch addition to the inner left and right, featuring a bipartite window to the inner right and a later glazed door to the outer right. A bipartite window is also present to the outer left.

The building has 8-pane timber sash and case windows, with diamond-paned timber windows on the southwest elevation. The lodge has a slate half-piended roof, while the square-plan pavilion and tower are covered with fish-scale slates, both topped with finials. There is a rendered stack on the northwest and a shouldered, ashlar, coped wallhead stack on the southwest elevation.

The ornamental cast-iron gates at the entrance are designed as two leaves. The boundary walls are made of rubble with rounded coping, and there are small turrets on either side of the gateway, near the road.