MHG23647 - Gate Lodge - Castle Leod

Summary

Gate Lodge at Castle Leod

Type and Period (1)

LODGE (Post Medieval - 1560 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

Listed Building (B) 7827: Castle Leod Gate Lodge, Gate Piers And Gates.

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Castle Leod, gate lodge.jpg — Old Council listed building record (for up to date description see link to Historic Scotland's website) © Highland Council. id: 17565 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Castle Leod, gate lodge - photograph.jpg — Listed Building Record - photograph © Highland Council (contact us for details). id: 17564 (click to view a larger version of this image)

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Full Description

Lodge; circa 1840. Single storey T-plan lodge with symmetrical 3-bay east facade (facing entrance to Castle Leod). Coursed rubble, ashlar dressings. Wide east front with centre advanced gabled porch, hoodmoulded doorway with Cromartie arms above; large finialled skewputts, and similar apex finial; flanking tripartites; rectangular hood-moulded bay window in south gable, again with Cromartie arms above; all gable ends with exaggerated finialled skewputts, and similar apex finials to porch. Unusual glazing of small hexagonal panes, which mostly survives End stack to rear wing; shallow pitched slate roof. Gate piers and gates; pair plain square rusticated gate piers with shallow ashlar pyramidal caps. Pair cast-iron carriage gates with spearhead detailing.

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Location

Grid reference	Centred NH 4885 5877 (14m by 13m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH45NE
Geographical Area	ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish	FODDERTY

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http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB7827 (Online designation description (Historic Environment Scotland))
https://canmore.org.uk/site/111274 (View HES Canmore entry for this site)

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