East Lodge And Gateway, Balfunning House

East Lodge and Gateway form part of the Balfunning House estate and were likely designed by James Thomson of Baird and Thomson of Glasgow, constructed between 1883 and 1884, with later additions to the lodge in the 20th century. The buildings are executed in a Scottish Baronial style.

The original lodge block is a single storey with an attic, comprised of three bays. It features crowstepped gables, including a breaking-eaves surround to the entrance, and a southeastern arriss canted out at ground floor level, corbelled above. The exterior is of coursed, snecked rockfaced sandstone with droved sandstone ashlar dressings to the original block. A base course is present on the original block, with chamfered window surrounds and hood-moulds, featuring scrolled stops, to the ground floor windows. Segmental-headed windows are present in the attic.

The principal south elevation retains the original three-bay block to the right. A slightly projecting central entrance is defined by a deep, breaking-eaves gabled surround with scrolled skewputts and a central arrowslit opening; moulded reveals frame a replacement two-leaf timber door. A window is located to the left of the ground floor. Mullioned quadripartite windows extend from the outer right across the canted arris at ground floor level and the outer left of the east elevation. A single-storey, 20th-century addition is set back to the outer left, with a segmental-headed entrance centrally and a segmental-headed window to the right. A mullioned bipartite window is located to the left.

The east elevation presents a window centered below an obelisk-finialled gable to both the ground floor and attic (the ground floor window is now blocked). Part of a mullioned quadripartite window is located to the outer left. A broad, square-plan chimney stack corbels out from the wall above the eaves at the outer right arris, incorporating a keyhole arrowslit. A single-storey 20th-century addition is set back to the far right.

The west elevation includes a single-storey, two-bay, 20th-century addition that projects from the original block and to the left; mullioned bipartite windows are found in each bay, with the one to the right crowstepped. An attic window is set back to the original block.

The north elevation showcases a single-storey, 20th-century addition projecting from the original block and to the right; an entrance is located to the left of centre, flanked by irregular fenestration.

Original two-pane timber sash and case windows are present on the ground floor of the original block and the south and west elevations of the 20th-century addition. Grey slate roofs cover the buildings, with the addition’s roof partially piended. Coped gablehead stacks are located at the west end of the original block and at the northeast arris, with a coped stack on the 20th-century addition, each topped with round cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1999.

The entrance gateway consists of a pair of square-plan gatepiers, chamfered at the arrises, with identical outer gatepiers for the flanking pedestrian gates. Each gatepier features a base course, a frieze, and stepped octagonal pyramid coping. Cast-iron gates incorporate two horizontal bands with circular motifs. Swept, rockfaced sandstone wing walls flank the gatepiers, with the north wall stepped up along a slight incline and the south wall stepped down along a slight incline. Both wing walls terminate at square-plan piers with moulded pyramid coping and ball finials.