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Summary

Description

Late 19th century; later alterations. Scots Baronial T-plan, single storey lodge-house with courtyard to rear. Coursed stone. Deep base course; eaves course.

NW (MAIN) ELEVATION: off centre projecting section: tripartite window with stone mullions; hoodmould with geometric bosses; relieving arch above; blind oculus with carved decorated trefoil in gablehead; chimney on left return; single window in right return. Blind bay to left; single window in bay to right. Entrance tower in re-entrant angle: stone step with stone dwarf walls; moulded doorway with stepped hoodmould; 3 blind lancet windows above; mock-machicolation; conical roof with ornamental finial.

SW ELEVATION: tripartite window with stone mullions; hoodmould with geometric bosses; relieving arch above; blind oculus with carved decorated trefoil in gablehead.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: central projecting converted courtyard: central door; single window to left; single window on left return; blind right return. Single window in left bay of house; brick outbuilding in right bay.

NE ELEVATION: single window at ground; panel in gablehead with ball decoration.

Modern glazing. Slate roof; crowstepped skews; shaped skewputts; tall stack at centre.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: pair of crenallated gatepiers: base; shaft with chamfered upper corners; crenallated parapet; coped shaft in centre of parapet. Small boundary wall; coped stone.

Statement of Special Interest

A-Group with Torrance House, Torrance House Lodge, Torrance House Stable, Torrance House Stable Court and statue of Sir John Falstaff. The gatelodge stands at the entrance to the old Torrance Estate that once belonged to the Stuart Family. The estate is now the Calderglen Country Park, but the main house and lodge remain in private ownership. In 1879 Colonel Harrington Stuart remodelled the main house in the Scots Baronial style. The lodge appears to have been built as part of this scheme.

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