Listed Building
The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.
Address/Name of Site
CARBERRY TOWER, MAIN GATE (LODGE AND ARCHWAY) WITH QUADRANTS, RETAINING WALLS AND GATESLB10871
Status: Designated
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Summary
- Category
- B
- Date Added
- 05/12/1977
- Supplementary Information Updated
- 31/07/2020
- Local Authority
- East Lothian
- Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Parish
- Inveresk
- NGR
- NT 35944 69597
- Coordinates
- 335944, 669597
Description
David Bryce, circa 1860. Single storey and attic Scottish 17th century style gate lodge, with single storey wing (extended later) and with Baronial archway. Squared and snecked, stugged sandstone; ashlar dressings.
LODGE: rounded corners to rectangular plan single storey and attic diminutive tower, corbelled to square above; stone porch abutting archway at centre of N elevation, with gabled dormerhead to 1st floor window, breaking eaves above. Ground floor windows in curved corners
flanking. Bowed, stone roofed stair bay adjoined to S of W gabled elevation with narrow windows. Window in gablehead to roadside with semi-circular pediment. Set-off and crowstepped wallhead stack to S elevation, with gabled single storey wing at ground, 1-bay deep with window to E. Flat-roofed extension built against quadrant and retaining wall to S, with windows inserted therein.
Small-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. Grey slates. Crowstepped gables with beak skewputts.
GATEWAY: segmental archway with beed and hollow surround, and crenellated parapet holding blank tablet to overthrow at centre. Pedestrian gateway flanking to N and corbelled, crenellated lookout turret to N angle, with water spouts.
QUADRANT AND RETAINING WALLS: ashlar gablet coping to rubble quadrant walls, and rubble coping to retaining walls.
GATES: timber gates with decorative wrought-iron grilles and coping, and cast-iron fittings, to driveway and pedestrian gate.
Statement of Special Interest
Avenue to the Tower, beyond the Main Gate, is tree-lined. North and South Lodges are listed separately. For further information on Carberry Tower, see listing entry above.
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