Lodge, The Glen

Lodge, The Glen

A Scots Baronial lodge designed by David Bryce in 1858 for Sir Charles Tennant, with a later lodge addition and a tower probably dating to circa 1905, designed by Robert Lorimer. The complex comprises a segmental-arched entrance gateway with a tourelle and wing wall, adjoining a later L-plan lodge with crow-stepped gables and a cylindrical tower set in the re-entrant angle.

The gateway is built in coursed red sandstone ashlar, whilst the lodge and tower are rendered in cream sandstone ashlar. The gateway and adjoining wall feature a base course and plain window surrounds, while the tower has a moulded eaves course.

The principal north-east elevation of the lodge displays an advanced crow-stepped gabled end with a window to the ground floor right and a central window to the upper storey. A curved right arris at ground floor level leads to a corbelled squared upper storey. The taller cylindrical tower, positioned in the re-entrant angle, features a narrow window at an indeterminate storey and a higher window to the left, surmounted by a conical roof with a decorative lead ball and spike finial.

The south-east elevation shows a crow-stepped gable end with an adjoining gateway at centre, a pair of narrow windows to the ground floor left and a single window to an indeterminate storey. A decorative stone finial crowns the gable apex, though the right of the gable has been replaced by the later tower.

The south-west rear elevation contains a boarded timber entrance door within a roll-moulded surround with a blind panel above. To the left stands a crow-stepped gable end with a single window to the right and single storey. A single-bay pitched wing advances to the left, with a later shallow flat-roofed extension featuring a central window that conceals the original end, and a window in its right return. An upper storey window appears in the gablehead to the right.

The north-west elevation is largely blind, save for a narrow window to the ground floor right, and a tall wallhead stack with pitched roof rising at centre. A curved arris at ground floor left supports a corbelled squared storey terminating in a moulded putt, with a single storey wing to the right. A low wall with cylindrical piers adjoins to the right, with a similar wall across the road forming an informal entrance to the estate.

Throughout the building, 8 and 12-pane glazing appears in timber sash and case windows. The pitched slate roof features stone riding, crow-stepped gables and kneeler putts. The later tower bears a fish-scale slated conical roof with lead flashing in lieu of guttering. Cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers are painted, and a tall ashlar wallhead stack with splayed base, ashlar neck cope and a pair of decorative cans is prominent.

The interior retains a near-original plan with a stair tower, timber skirting boards and doors.

The gateway's principal north-east elevation features a moulded segmental arch with a stepped rope hoodmould terminating in knot label stops. An inset decorative panel sits within a stepped parapet surmounted by a bartizan to the left, all with moulded coping. A lower plain arched wing wall adjoins the left flank (formerly with a building behind the south-east section), with the lodge adjoining to the right flank. The south-west rear elevation of the gateway displays similar styling with a plain stepped hoodmould in place of rope moulding and a date stone in the raised parapet.

A pair of later decorative wrought-iron gates features woven dogbars, with alternate stylised tulip and leaf finials to the mid-rail and stylised paired fleur-de-lis flanking a large central tulip to the top-rail.