What is recorded here

West Lodge stands as a separate lodge in Aberdeenshire, its precise point known to the nearest metre while its building period remains unassigned. It may have served Thornton Castle as a gateway, guardroom or guest house, but no fact above names that role. The main castle and this lodge likely formed one estate, with West Lodge marking the boundary between private land and the road.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Thornton Castle, West Lodge as Lodge (period Unassigned). 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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