Auchernach House, Northern And Southern Lodges
Gate Lodge (19th Century)
Site Name Auchernach House, Northern And Southern Lodges
Classification Gate Lodge (19th Century)
Canmore ID 138109
Site Number NJ31NW 3.05
NGR NJ 33405 15869
NGR Description and NJ 33401 15858
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/138109
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Strathdon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Auchernach Lodges, 1809 (northern), 1858 (southern). The northern one is single storey in pinned rubble with broad eaves and piend roof plus chimney with three crisp diagonal shafts; the southern one is single-storey-and-attic, harled,
also with Tudor chimneys; rises at rear.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
Single storey with attic and raised basement, 3-bay, rectangular-plan N cottage with broad eaved piend roof and dominant centre stacks with 3 diamond-aligned shafts.Largely 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows; 8-lying-pane glazing pattern in timber casement windows to 1st floor windows of S lodge. Graded grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks; ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts to S lodge.
One of a pair of lodges on the long drivway leading to the house (demolished) site and the walled garden. (Historic Scotland)
Go to BARR website 
