57a Union Street, Hamilton

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, rectangular-plan lodge with adjoining tower and 2-storey and attic coachhouse/stable built on falling ground forming L-plan, Italianate group. Stugged and snecked sandstone rubble, stugged ashlar dressings, slate roof. Base course; various band courses; sash and case windows of various pattern, round-headed with ashlar hoodmoulds to lodge; bracketted eaves with plain bargeboards; ridge stacks with unusual round-corbel coping.

E ELEVATION: tower to centre, segmental-arch carriage entrance, 4-pane round-headed window to 1st floor with consoled timber pediment to roof; door to left return elevation, 2 cross-pattern arrowslit ventilators at 1st floor, shallow pyramidal roof with large weathervane finial. Gable advanced to right, 2- and 4-pane tripartite canted window, 4-pane round-headed window above with cast-iron window guard, blocked door to left return. Gable recessed to left, stairs to garden at lower level, pigstye and poultry house, principal floor blank, small round-headed window to attic.

N ELEVATION: lodge to left, 4-pane round-headed window to gable at 1st floor (ground floor masked by falling ground), door, 2 windows and carriage arch to right return elevation. Stable/coach house recessed to right, large sliding door, 12-pane window, large 2-leaf door and smaller door, haydoor with gabled roof above.

S ELEVATION: 2 doors and 3 partially boarded windows to lower floor, 2 windows to principal floor, all with ashlar margins to top.

INTERIOR: not seen.

BOUNDARY AND TERRACE WALLS: segmentally-coped stugged ashlar wall to Union Street; rubble boundary walls to E and W, 2 ashlar gatepiers to W, various garden terrace walls and steps.