Cluny Castle, West Lodge

West Lodge still stands beside Cluny Castle in Aberdeenshire, a Post Medieval building reduced to a thin rectangular shadow on the estate. It may have been a guardroom, a gateway house or a small residence for someone who watched the main castle rather than lived grandly inside it. That much smaller role makes it easier to imagine: a lamp lit at dusk, boots on stone, a door opening onto dark ground. The lodge does not need to be famous because it preserved the shape of a boundary, and boundaries are where estates become alive.