Ardlochan Lodge, Culzean Castle

Ardlochan Lodge, built around 1830, is a single-storey, three-bay gate lodge with a rectangular plan and a piended roof. It features a prominent brick ridge stack and a lean-to extension with a catslide roof on the south side. The exterior is made of limewashed random rubble with droved ashlar dressings and is located on the south side of the track at the southwest entrance to the estate.

On the northeast elevation, there is a broad central doorway flanked by sidelights, while the outer bays have segmental-arched windows. The west elevation has a central segmental-arched window, and the east elevation features a central segmental-arched window with a door leading to the lean-to on the left. The south elevation includes a small window aperture to the left in the wall of the lean-to.

The lodge predominantly has eight-pane glazing in side-hung timber casements and a corniced brick stack with red clay cans. The roof is covered with grey slate.

Inside, as seen in 2010, there is a small entrance lobby with oak-grained timber panelling and doors. To the left is a former kitchen, which includes a scullery in the lean-to beyond. Ochre-coloured 1-foot-square ceramic tiles are concealed beneath a later timber floor, and there is a ceramic tile fireplace from around 1930. To the right, there is a former bedroom and an additional room in the lean-to beyond, with a lime-ash floor concealed beneath timber flooring. A 19th-century timber fireplace, featuring a later grate and ceramic tiles, is present, along with vertically boarded timber doors throughout.

The gatepiers are square-plan, diminutive droved ashlar piers with a cornice and shallow pyramidal copes, attached on both sides to the remains of a random rubble wall with slab coping. There is a non-original tubular metal gate.