Building record MAB4544 - GATE LODGE, BALLINDALLOCH CASTLE

Scottish Baronial Gate Lodge to Ballindalloch Castle (NJ13NE0004) by Thomas Mackenzie, 1850.

Scottish Baronial Gate Lodge to Ballindalloch Castle (NJ13NE0004) by Thomas Mackenzie, 1850. Three-storey, slender rectangular plan, single bay lodge with projecting stair tower rising full height at southwest angle and gate arch springing from east elevation. Harled exterior with tooled and polished ashlar dressings and margins. Lodge doorway in east elevation sheltered by thickness of archway, with similar doors across drive to store. Studded plank doors with decorative wrought-iron hinges. Small ground floor northeast angle window, corbelled wallhead encircles crowstepped caphouse at second floor, with access to wallhead from stair tower, small pepperpot bartizan at northeast and small square open bartizans at southeast and northwest angles. Fish-scale Banffshire slate roofs to bellcast turrets, similar slates to caphouse. Round-headed gate arch with crenellated overthrow. Moulded and nailhead surround to archway flanked by dummy shot holes (probably formerly housing bellpulls). Coat of arms in square plaque with cable moulded border above archway (south) and monogram (north). Pair iron gates in style of yett fitting shape of round-headed archway when closed.

Period Notes
Listed 22/02/1972

Record last edited

Oct 1 2026 6:28PM