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Summary

Description

Probably George Fortune, dated 1897 with substantial alterations and additions circa 1920. 2-storey single bay lodge house with Scottish 17th century details, adjacent to pedimented pedestrian gate and wrought-iron double drive gate. Pebbledash and ashlar dressings. Chamfered arrises; Tudor hoodmould to each window.

NE ELEVATION: battered base course with string course above. Corbelled tripartite ashlar oriel window at ground with bipartite widow at 1st floor above.

SE ELEVATION: 2-bay. Half-piended single storey addition in bay to left. Bipartite transomed window at ground in bay to left; plaque with "1897 AS IFL" to right of centre of addition. Deep-set boarded door, to outer right of addition, with wrought-iron hinges, 8-pane rectangular fanlight set in ashlar doorpiece with "Al My Hoip Is In Ye Lord" carved on lintel. Bipartite window at ground and at 1st floor (transomed) above.

SW ELEVATION: 2-bay. Modern partially glazed door at ground in bay to left with rectangular fanlight above with modern lean-to conservatory; bipartite window at 1st floor above. Large bipartite transomed window in bay to right, at ground overlapping with single storey addition to SE.

Multi-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and exposed rafters. Shouldered and coped wallhead stack to SW elevation; ridge stack. Rectangular-section downpipes.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1995.

GATE: boarded pedestrian door set in pedimented doorpiece with roll-moulded surround, with heraldic insignia carved in tympanum on each elevation and fleur-de-lys finial. Square-plan ashlar gatepiers to principal gate with base course, panels and cavetto cornices and bell-cast ashlar caps crowned with ashlar pineapples. Fine 2-leaf wrought-iron gates with "SL 1897" in gilt near top.

KENNELS: to NW of lodge. Simple 2 kennel structure with gabled end with 2 doors and 2 closely-grouped windows to centre; scalloped bargeboarding.

Statement of Special Interest

The lodge and gate fall within the parish boundary of Duns, whilst the house Whitchester itself lies in Longformacus Parish. It was built originally as a smaller castellated lodge with corbelled parapets and round bartizans, but altered and extended with a pitched slate roof to both lodge and porch in about 1910-20.

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