
What is recorded here
Detached five-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1909, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, decorative timber bargeboards to gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings ("cheeks") with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Glendruid.
A gate lodge forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway (see 60260217) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene at the entrance on to the grounds of the Glendruid estate.
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