Gate Lodge, Ardverikie House

The gate lodge, dating from around 1874 to 1878, was designed by John Rhind and forms part of the Ardverikie House estate. It is a rectangular building with a turret, built over a raised basement. A projecting, round stair turret is located at the northeast angle and is topped with a bellcast conical slate roof.

The lodge is constructed from coursed, tooled grey granite with contrasting, tooled ashlar dressings. The main entrance is in the northwest re-entrant angle, created by the turret, and is sheltered by a slated canopy supported by elaborately carved wooden brackets. A segmentally arched bench recess is at the centre of this entrance, and it is accessed via a plank door with decorative cast-iron hinges. A secondary entrance is located on the east elevation within the raised basement. The west gable, facing the driveway, has a tripartite arrangement on the raised ground floor and a bipartite arrangement on the first floor, both featuring two-pane glazing. Offset lancet windows encircle the stair turret. A coped wallhead stack and projecting eaves complement the slate roof.

The gate lodge is approached by a pair of tall, square, tooled grey granite ashlar gate piers, rising from battered plinths and finished with bracketted ashlar cornices and pyramid finials. Between the piers is a pair of case and wrought-iron carriage gates. A plain, flat-arched bridge, supported by rubble end abutments and featuring a cast-iron lattice girder balustrade, crosses the River Pattack.

The lodge appears to have been built shortly after the 1873-8 remodelling of Ardverikie House, and the bridge was constructed around the turn of the century. The stables and associated offices, located to the south of the house, were built after the bridge. Prior to the bridge's construction, horses and carriages were left at Cromra on the north shore of Loch Laggan, opposite Ardverikie, with the final stage of the journey completed by boat. John Rhind died in 1889.