Lodge, Dalnair House

The lodge, probably designed by James Bell of Glasgow around 1884, sits within the grounds of Dalnair House. It is accompanied by a small 20th-century addition and a later pavilion. The lodge is an overall "T"-plan structure, showcasing a Scottish Baronial design. It features a semicircular-plan porch and an octagonal turret at the northwest angle, with mullioned and transomed windows and a steeply pitched roof. Deep, bracketed overhanging eaves and dormers add to its distinctive character.

The lodge is constructed of coursed, stugged, partly snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, while the extensions are harled. A base course is present on the main block. The west elevation features a projecting semicircular-plan porch topped with a scrolled terracotta finial. The Caernarvon-arched entrance has a roll-moulded surround and a replacement two-leaf glazed timber door. To the left, a wall is chamfered and stops at the arris, continuing above the eaves as the octagonal turret. This turret features a frieze with a pierced trefoil in each recessed panel and a crenellated parapet. Arrowslits with cusped heads are set into the turret’s three outer faces. A canted projecting bay extends to the right, incorporating a mullioned and transomed quadripartite window at the centre, flanked by transomed bipartites at the angles. Masonry corbels are used to project the eaves, supporting a double-bracketed profile above the window heads. A canted, piended dormer, finished with a terracotta finial, is situated above the main ridge of the roof.

The south elevation mirrors the west, with a mullioned and transomed quadripartite to the left and a projecting bay to the right, complete with a two-sided, piended dormer and terracotta finial. A small, flat-roofed addition is set back to the right, adjoined by a later pavilion.

The north elevation features a mullioned and transomed quadripartite to a projecting bay on the left, continuing the chamfered and stopped arris which forms the base for the octagonal turret (as seen on the west elevation). An entrance is set back to the right, mirroring the west elevation. A small, flat-roofed addition is set back to the left, adjoining a later pavilion.

A late 20th-century addition with canted sides and a pyramid roof projects at an angle from a small, flat-roofed ground-floor addition on the east elevation. Another canted, piended dormer with a terracotta finial sits above the main ridge.

Most windows are timber sash and case with four-pane upper sashes. The roof is grey slate, piended in shape, and features terracotta ridge tiles and rooflights on the north and south elevations. A large corniced ridge stack with a frieze and round cans is also present.

The interior remains uninspected.

The gateway comprises a pair of square-plan sandstone ashlar gate piers, located southwest of the lodge. These are chamfered above the base with a frieze and flat-topped, moulded coping, originally likely finialled. A pair of cast-iron gates featuring spiked railings and a band of cross motifs complete the gateway. Low, flanking swept wing walls are surmounted by spiked railings.