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Latitude: 55.9152 / 55°54'54"N
Longitude: -3.0264 / 3°1'34"W
OS Eastings: 335944
OS Northings: 669597
OS Grid: NT359695
Mapcode National: GBR 7091.LD
Mapcode Global: WH7V0.HL36
Plus Code: 9C7RWX8F+3F
Entry Name: Main Gate And Gate-Lodge, Carberry Tower
Listing Name: Carberry Tower, Main Gate (Lodge and Archway) with Quadrants, Retaining Walls and Gates
Listing Date: 5 December 1977
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 343379
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10871
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200343379
Location: Inveresk
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: Tranent, Wallyford and Macmerry
Parish: Inveresk
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
David Bryce, circa 1860. Single storey and attic Scottish 17th century style gate lodge, with single storey wing (extended later) and with Baronial archway. Squared and snecked, stugged sandstone; ashlar dressings.
LODGE: rounded corners to rectangular plan single storey and attic diminutive tower, corbelled to square above; stone porch abutting archway at centre of N elevation, with gabled dormerhead to 1st floor window, breaking eaves above. Ground floor windows in curved corners
flanking. Bowed, stone roofed stair bay adjoined to S of W gabled elevation with narrow windows. Window in gablehead to roadside with semi-circular pediment. Set-off and crowstepped wallhead stack to S elevation, with gabled single storey wing at ground, 1-bay deep with window to E. Flat-roofed extension built against quadrant and retaining wall to S, with windows inserted therein.
Small-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. Grey slates. Crowstepped gables with beak skewputts.
GATEWAY: segmental archway with beed and hollow surround, and crenellated parapet holding blank tablet to overthrow at centre. Pedestrian gateway flanking to N and corbelled, crenellated lookout turret to N angle, with water spouts.
QUADRANT AND RETAINING WALLS: ashlar gablet coping to rubble quadrant walls, and rubble coping to retaining walls.
GATES: timber gates with decorative wrought-iron grilles and coping, and cast-iron fittings, to driveway and pedestrian gate.
Avenue to the Tower, beyond the Main Gate, is tree-lined. North and South Lodges are listed separately. For further information on Carberry Tower, see listing entry above.
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