What is recorded here
Edinburgh, Redford Road, Dreghorn Castle, Lodge stands as a gate lodge, though no date or builder is recorded. It marks the entrance to Dreghorn Castle, a boundary between private land and the surrounding city. The exact position is known within one metre, yet the purpose and history of the building remain unclear. A gate lodge suggests control, welcome or exclusion, but no further detail survives to choose between them.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Redford Road, Dreghorn Castle, Lodge as Gate Lodge (period Unknown). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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