Wiston Lodge, Millrigg Road, Wiston

Wiston Lodge is an early 19th-century hunting lodge and country house with later additions, including a concert and recreation hall from the early 20th century. It is a 2-storey building of asymmetrical plan with Baronial and Picturesque embellishments. The principal elevations are built in bull-faced reddish sandstone coursers, with coursed and random rubble elsewhere. Dressings are of bull-faced and ashlar cream sandstone, with cream ashlar used to the upper stage of the tower. The roof is of grey slate. Details include a base course of long-and-short work type quoins and window margins, single, bi- and tripartite windows with 2-pane timber sash and case glazing (some with dormer-headed gables), plain modern bargeboards, cast-iron rainwater goods, and shouldered ridge and end stacks.

The front (east) elevation comprises 5 bays. A single-storey entrance porch to the left has a 2-leaf door with a stilted segmental-arch doorcase featuring nailhead moulding and rope hoodmould knotted at label stops, polished red granite nook shafts, corbelled and stepped parapet with a ball-finial and segmental feature over the door. An arrow-slit motif sits to the left, with a tripartite window with moulded jambs and hoodmould to the left return. A 4-stage tower slightly advanced to the right features a tripartite window with segmental heads to the first stage, bipartite to the second, quatrefoil oculi to the third, and round-headed single and blind windows with a corbel table and crenellated parapet to the fourth stage. A crenellated cap-house crowns the tower. Two bays slightly recessed to the far right each have a segmental-headed bipartite window to the ground floor and a gabled dormerhead above. A slightly advanced gable to the outer right contains a 2-storey, 5-light canted window.

The south elevation has two narrow bays recessed to the centre with single windows to the ground and first floors. Gables slightly advanced to left and right feature tripartite windows to the ground and first floors (bipartite to the first floor on the right). An entrance porch sits to the far right. Two windows to the ground and first floors of the left return gable are visible; the ground floor left has been converted to a door and is now masked by a linking bay to the concert and recreation hall. A window to the right and first floor left is blocked.

The west elevation includes a single-storey concert and recreation hall advanced to the far right, which is harled with a slate roof. The hall has margined windows with 6-pane top-hoppers over 2 fixed-pane timber frames, half-timbered gable detailing, and plain bargeboards. A verandah to the south gable has been removed. Single and 2-storey gables with various doors and windows serve offices at the main elevation.

The interior is little altered. It features a fine encaustic tile floor in the entrance porch, original joinery including boarded and panelled rooms, doors, and staircases, decorative plasterwork, original chimneypieces, and a fine top-light over the landing with stained glass.

Three associated cottages are listed as part of the group value.

Clachan Cottage is an early 20th-century single-storey, 3-bay cottage. It has a corrugated metal and modern tile roof, with 4-pane timber sash and case windows.

Kennels Cottage dates to the mid 19th century. It is a single-storey and attic 3-bay cottage built in snecked and random rubble with bull-faced cream ashlar dressings in long-and-short work style similar to Wiston Lodge. The roof is of grey slate. The building has modern replacement windows to the ground floor, 2- and 4-pane timber sash and case windows to piended dormers, plain bargeboards, bracketed eaves, and a modern timber gabled porch masking the front door. Corniced stacks are present. Rubble-built kennels with a piended slate roof sit to the rear.

Shieling Cottage is an early 20th-century single-storey, 3-bay cottage. It is harled with a modern tile roof, timber top-hinged and casement windows, plain bargeboards, brick stacks, and a gabled porch to the front.