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Detached three-bay single-storey complex-plan limestone-built Jacobean-style gate lodge, built c.1878, two-bay projection to north-east-facing entrance elevation and one-bay projection with dormer window to rear. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with red clay-ware sawtooth ridge cresting, ashlar chimneystacks with carved string courses and cornices, carved curvilinear gables to all elevations and over entrance, having carved stone finials. Square-profile cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets and hoppers. Squared coursed rock-faced masonry with ashlar dressed quoins and chamfered plinth course. Carved limestone Leslie insignia over doorway comprising 'J L', demi-griffin and motto 'GRIP FAST', and carved shields with oak leaves and chain device set into recesses having moulded surrounds. Square-headed transom-and-mullion window openings with block-and-start ashlar surrounds, relieving arches above with rock-faced voussoirs, and with timber windows. Square-headed door opening with block-and-start ashlar surround and moulded reveal, replacement timber door, and flight of cut-stone steps with low cut-stone parapets with arrises to copings. Set inside ornate west entrance gateway of Castle Leslie.
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