East Lodge: Difference between revisions

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Building summary

Name	House of Falkland East Lodge
Address
Postcode
Other names
Date	c.1844
Architect	William Burn (?)
OS grid ref	NO 24764 7439
Latitude & longitude	56°15′13″N 3°12′57″W

The East Lodge is a building at the end of West Port, originally the main entrance to the House of Falkland designed landscape. The panel over the door shows the letter b with a marquess's coronet, preseumably referencing the Third Marquess of Bute.

HES listing details^[1]
Reference: LB31350	Date:	Category: B
Address/Site Name House of Falkland East Lodge and gatepiers
Description Probably William Burn, circa 1844. Single-storey and attic, 2-bay Tudor lodge with steep-pitched roof and dormers breaking wallhead with decorative timber bargeboarding; later single-storey extension to SW. Coursed, stugged sandstone with ashlar margins. Base course. Chamfered window openings; some with stone mullions. Some stepped hoodmoulding. Deep overhanging bracketed eaves. Pair of tall diamond-shafted ridge chimney stacks. Gabled dormer to E. W ELEVATION: central gabled porch with interior timber panelled entrance door. Lancet window above. N ELEVATION: off centre canted bay window with gabled dormer breaking wallhead above. Slightly lower bay to right with piended roof. Predominantly 4-lying pane fixed timber windows. Grey slates. GATEPIERS: Pair of square-plan coped gatepiers to drive with acorn finials, with similar flanking pedestrian gatepiers. Balustrades to E and W with urn balusters.
Statement of special interest This little altered Tudor style lodge and its associated gatepiers and balustrades are important and distinctive features at the main eastern entry to the House of Falkand Estate. [...]

Previous uses

Former residents

Further references

"Wavily bargeboarded mid-Victorian Lddge^[2]

Notes

↑ HES record for LB31350
↑ Gifford, Fife, page 225.

Gallery

[Click on a picture below to see the image full-size]

View from west
View from north
East Lodge and gate piers
Panel over door

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[1] HES record for LB31350

[2] Gifford, Fife, page 225.

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 House of Falkland East Lodge and gatepiers
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 Probably William Burn, circa 1844. Single-storey and attic, 2-bay Tudor lodge with steep-pitched roof and dormers breaking wallhead with decorative timber bargeboarding; later single-storey extension to SW. Coursed, stugged sandstone with ashlar margins. Base course. Chamfered window openings; some with stone mullions. Some stepped hoodmoulding. Deep overhanging bracketed eaves. Pair of tall diamond-shafted ridge chimney stacks. Gabled dormer to E.
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 GATEPIERS: Pair of square-plan coped gatepiers to drive with acorn finials, with similar flanking pedestrian gatepiers. Balustrades to E and W with urn balusters.
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 This little altered Tudor style lodge and its associated gatepiers and balustrades are important and distinctive features at the main eastern entry to the House of Falkand Estate. [...]
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