West Clock Lodge, Spottiswoode

West Clock Lodge, built in 1796, is a pair of rectangular lodge houses originally designed as symmetrical mirror images, situated on either side of the drive leading to Spottiswoode House. The lodges are constructed of whinstone with red sandstone dressings, with modern harled additions. A base course, window sills, eaves course, and quoins are visible on the exterior.

The South elevation features a three-bay design. A boarded door is centrally positioned, with a four-pane rectangular fanlight above. A date stone, “1796”, is above the door of the East lodge. Flanking the centre are plaques with moulded ashlar surrounds; the East lodge plaque displays painted mileage markers to Morpeth, Newcastle, York, London, Newcastle, Dover, Portsmouth, and Holymouth, while the West lodge plaque lists distances to Crieff, Perth, Aberdeen, Inverness, Dalkeith, Edinburgh, Falkirk, and Glasgow. Windows are present in the flanking bays.

The West elevation of the West lodge, and the East elevation of the East lodge (the outer elevations), feature a crenellated screen above the end walls, with a merlon in the centre concealing a stack. A blinded intersecting, traceried opening is centrally located (less complex and wider on the East lodge, with a cill course and flanked by blind decorative arrow slits). Quatrefoil niches are positioned on either side. A later timber, mono-pitched addition is present on the West lodge, and later harled, single-storey additions extend to the North of each lodge, being more extensive on the East lodge.

The rear of the screen walls contain circular openings with painted clocks, purportedly indicating the expected arrival times of stage coaches. The East elevations of the West lodge, and the West elevation of the East lodge (the inner elevations), exhibit a bowed two-bay design, featuring windows in each bay, and semicircular, corniced gatepiers projecting from the wall, topped with ashlar urns. Later additions are present to the North, with a door and glazed porch on the West lodge.

A modern panelled door with a canopy is situated to the left of the original building, alongside a window. An advanced bay with bipartite windows is on the left side.

The lodge houses have 12-pane timber sash and case windows and slate half-piended roofs – the West lodge’s roof is purple. The inner elevations have bowed roofs, and a single cast-iron rooflight is centrally located on the South pitch. Stacks are positioned on the North elevation (facing the inner elevation), and a piended addition with a glazed sun porch is on the East elevation of the East lodge. A flat-roofed addition is found on the West lodge. The interiors were not inspected in 1995.