West Lodge With Gatepiers And Quadrant Walls, Balmoral Castle

West Lodge with Gatepiers and Quadrant Walls at Balmoral Castle was built in 1854. It is a single-storey and attic lodge designed in a picturesque style with gabled features. The structure is made of stugged, squared, and coursed granite, and it has a base course. The attic floor slightly juts out on a corbel course and features timber mullions.

On the west elevation, there is a gabled stone porch at the center with stop-chamfered arrises, a panelled door, and a fanlight, along with small windows on the returns. Flanking the porch are bipartite windows. The south elevation has two blind arrowslits at ground level and a bipartite window in the attic. There are single-storey piend-roofed service buildings at the rear that advance and clasp the corner to the right, featuring a small bipartite window.

The north elevation includes a rectangular projecting tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window in the attic, with two narrow windows in a recessed service block to the left. The east elevation has a gabled wing to the right, connected to a piend-roofed rear entrance block that is recessed to the center and left.

The lodge features plate glass glazing in sash and case windows, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates, which overhang the eaves and are supported by decorative timber brackets. The front block has scrolled barge boards with kingposts and pendant angles, and there is a rooflight at the rear. Coped stone stacks are also present.

The gatepiers and quadrant walls are battered and bull-faced, with squat square-section gatepiers that have a cornice flanking the drive. The quadrant walls are made of coursed, bull-faced granite with ashlar coping.