North Lodge And Stables, Stuckgowan House, Tarbet

This is an early 19th-century lodge and stable range, forming part of the Stuckgowan House estate, located within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. The lodge itself is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular building with Tudor-Gothic detailing, and it likely underwent alterations in the early 19th century. The exterior walls are painted rubble with ashlar margins and dressings, and droved quoins. The windows and doors are framed by 4-centred arches, with chamfered reveals. The front elevation features a narrow, two-leaf boarded door at the centre, flanked by windows, with the first-floor windows symmetrically arranged, and a leaded diamond-pane casement window centrally positioned. Most windows are timber sash and case with eight panes; one window features leaded diamond glazing in a cast-iron casement. The roof is piended, covered in grey slate with lead flashings, and incorporates cast-iron rooflights at the rear. The wallhead is finished with coped sandstone stacks topped with circular cans.

Attached to the rear of the lodge is an L-shaped, single-storey former kennels/stable building constructed of lime-washed rubble. The court elevation of the principal range has a door on the outer left, a flanking door with a blinded loft window above, a window, and a further door to the right, alongside a gabled, slate-hung hoist door to the left. A broad boarded garage is located on the inner return of the shorter jamb. The stables are roofed with grey slate and have lead flashings.

A walled garden, situated to the south of the lodge, is enclosed by a rubble wall with slab coping, including an entrance with chamfered reveals in the west wall.

The lodge, kennels, and walled garden are separate from the main Stuckgowan House and its main lodge, which are listed separately. Further information can be found in F A Walker and F Sinclair’s North Clyde Estuary (1992), page 55.