Lodge, Finnich Malise

This is an early 20th century entrance lodge and gateway, situated within the grounds of Finnich Malise estate. The lodge was built to replace an earlier lodge shown on an 1898 Ordnance Survey map, during the ownership of John Wilson, a Glasgow shipowner. Originally occupied by Wilson’s coachman, Robert King, and his family, the lodge and gateway contribute to the group value of the estate, alongside the main house, steading, and walled garden, which date back to the early 19th century.

The lodge is a single-storey building with an irregular plan. The principal, west-facing elevation has a projecting bay featuring a canted window. The walls are harled with painted ashlar dressings. Windows are architraved, with long and shorts, except those on the rear, east, elevation and the canted window. Vertical margins at the arrises also feature long and shorts. Overhanging eaves are supported by brackets.

The west elevation has four bays; an entrance with a two-leaf timber door (with boarded panels) is located in the second bay from the left, with a window to the left and a slightly projecting bay with a canted window to the right. A blank bay is set back to the extreme right. The north elevation has two bays, with a window to the right and a blank bay set back to the left. The south elevation also has two bays; a window is positioned to the left, and an entrance (with a possible later inserted, non-architraved boarded timber door) is set back to the right. The east elevation has four bays—windows to the central two bays—with the flanking bays set back, and a plain timber door entrance to the bay on the left.

The roof is piended and covered in grey slate, with curved ridge slates, and is slightly lower in height, including the eaves, over the bay projecting to the south. The windows are 6-pane horned timber sash and case windows, with 4-pane lower sashes containing obscured glass in the lower two panes. A coped ridge stack is present, topped with round cans. The interior was not inspected in 2000.

The entrance gateway consists of a pair of corniced circular-plan sandstone ashlar gatepiers with rounded coping, flanking pedestrian entrances, and swept, coursed, droved sandstone wing walls to the northwest. The wing walls are finished with rounded coping and terminate at circular-plan piers that match the design of the gatepiers. Timber gates sweep upwards to the central piers for the pedestrian entrances.