Building record MAB32004 - GLENDOLL LODGE

Hunting lodge, built in 1872 with later additions and alterations, including a squash court in circa 1950, now in use as a Mountain Rescue Post.

Hunting lodge, built in 1872 with later additions and alterations, including a squash court in circa 1950, now in use as a Mountain Rescue Post. It is also known as 'Gel Doll Lodge', and formerly used as a Youth Hostel. According to Alexander Warden (1882), the lodge was built by the Earl of Southesk. It had various owners until it was acquired by the Forestry Commission in the 1930s. It was later sold to the Youth Hostel Association in the 1950s. It is a two-storey U-plan picturesque shooting lodge, with decorative pierced barge-boarding to the gables, first floor dormers and deep bracketed eaves. There is a painted roughcast harl, with painted red sandstone margins and quoin strips. The graded Scottish slate roof has rendered stacks with sandstone cornices and quoin strips and yellow clay cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers. The south elevation has slightly advanced two-bay gables flanking a central section with a barge-boarded porch. A round-arched doorway has been blocked, and replaced by a small window. The entrance range to the east has a 20th century addition to the north, with a barge-boarded porch and round-arched entrance, timber-boarded panelling to a dado and timber benches. The two-leaf timber panelled front door is in a plain margined architrave, with a blocked rectangular fanlight. To the north is a service courtyard with timber-boarded back doors. Inside, there is a curved timber staircase with barley-twist cast-iron balusters and decorative newel. The principal rooms have decorative cornicing. The squash court is a two-storey, four-bay rectangular building, constructed from roughcast-rendered brick with pilaster-strips between the bays and a timber-boarded entrance door with a small canopy. To the west of the squash court is a small gabled brick outbuilding / stable.

WARDEN, A. J., 1880-85, ANGUS OR FORFARSHIRE: THE LAND & PEOPLE, Vol III, pp121-2 (Bibliographic reference). SAB2086.

PETER MCGOWAN ASSOCIATES, 2013, CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK, HISTORIC DESIGNED LANDSCAPES PROJECT - SITE RESEARCH REPORT: 19 GLENDOLL LODGE (Bibliographic reference). SAB5433.

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Mar 10 2020 11:42AM