East Lodge, Auchincruive

East Lodge is an earlier 19th-century lodge with later additions. It is a single-story, rectangular building with three bays. The lodge is constructed of coursed sandstone ashlar with a base course, projecting cills, an eaves cornice, and an eaves blocking course.

The east (entrance) elevation is symmetrical. The central bay is slightly advanced and contains a modern panelled timber door set within a round-arched opening with impost detail. There is a window in each of the flanking bays. The north elevation has a window to the centre, adjoined to the outer right by a modern, flat-roofed addition finished in harling. The west elevation is obscured by a similar modern harled addition. The south elevation also features a central window, with a modern, flat-roofed, harled addition adjoining to the outer left.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is piended, covered in grey slate with lead ridges, and features a coped ridge stack with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present. The interior was not inspected in 1999.

East Lodge is part of a group that includes Gibbsyard, Hanging Garden, the Ice House, Oswald Hall, Oswald’s Temple, the Walled Garden, West Lodge, and Wilson Hall. It is near identical in appearance to West Lodge. The wider Auchincruive Estate has a long history, having been owned by the Wallace family from the 13th century. Ownership passed through various hands until 1764 when James Murray of Broughton sold it to Richard Oswald, a merchant and entrepreneur. The Oswald family retained ownership until 1925, at which point the estate was sold to a local farmer, John M Hannah, who gifted it to the West of Scotland Agricultural College in 1927. The college continues to own the estate. East Lodge is visible on Thomson's map of Ayrshire from 1828, as well as on the first (1860) and second (1897) edition Ordnance Survey maps.