Gartartan Lodge, Gartmore House

Gartartan Lodge, part of the Gartmore House estate, was built around 1902 by the architect David Barclay. It stands on high ground at the northeast entrance to the estate, near a lay-by west of the A81 road. The lodge's construction coincided with Barclay’s remodelling of Gartmore House for the Cayzer family and marks a significant phase in the estate’s development. It represents a good example of Barclay’s work and possesses group value as a key element of the Gartmore House estate.

The lodge is a two-story, roughcast building in a Baronial style, distinguished by two prominent circular towers. One tower is located on the southeast corner, and a smaller tower sits on the opposite side of the driveway, flanked by gatepiers and wrought-iron gates. The principal southeast elevation features three bays, with the two-stage circular tower to the right and a rectangular tower to the left. An architraved entrance is centrally positioned with a six-light fanlight and a pedimented single window above. Both towers are crenellated, and the circular tower also includes machicolations. A slightly battered base course runs along the elevation, with cill courses marking the ground and first floors (the first-floor cill is partially obscured by vegetation).

The northeast side elevation showcases two bays; a circular tower on the left and a detailed two-story bay window on the right. The ground floor bay window is tripartite, featuring stone columns, a corniced surround, a blank shield motif above, and crenellations. Above it, on the first floor, is a three-light, canted bay window with a decorative pediment. A bartizan is present on the north corner, accented by a quoin strip below.

The rear (northwest) elevation is largely blank, featuring a false arrow slit in the crowstepped gable, a skewputt, and quoin strips.

The smaller, single-stage circular gate tower stands to the south, across the driveway. It has small windows on the northeast and southwest faces and a small door on the southeast side. Features include a slightly battered base course, a cill course, and crenellations.

Inside, a fine curved timber staircase with timber balusters and a curved mahogany handrail is located in the square tower near the entrance. The circular tower contains an octagonal sitting room with a bedroom above. The interior is characterized by timber-panelled doors, cornicing to the principal rooms, and timber floorboards throughout.

The lodge is constructed with roughcast walls and roll-moulded ashlar dressings around the openings. The front door is timber-boarded. Windows are timber sash and case, with horns, multi-pane upper sashes, and plate glass lower sashes. The main lodge section and the rectangular tower have slate pitched roofs and a pyramid roof respectively, while the circular tower has a flat copper roof. A rendered coped gablehead stack features decorative clay cans, and some cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

Substantial corniced ashlar gatepiers are attached to the lodge and the smaller gate tower, supporting ornate wrought-iron gates. Squared and snecked rubble boundary walls run alongside the lodge and gate tower to the north and south. A long retaining wall also defines the boundary between the lodge and the main road to the east.