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Newbattle Abbey, Port Gate North Lodge
Gate(S) (18th Century), Gate Lodge (18th Century)
Site Name Newbattle Abbey, Port Gate North Lodge
Classification Gate(S) (18th Century), Gate Lodge (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Avenue Gate; Newbattle Abbey Policies
Canmore ID 212556
Site Number NT36NW 14.03
NGR NT 33109 65887
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/212556
- Council Midlothian
- Parish Newbattle
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
One of a pair of 2 storey, square-plan lodges with gatepiers and linking quadrant colonnades. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Raised and rusticated long and short quoins, rusticated dressings to principal elevations; base and eaves courses. 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Corniced platform roof; balustraded parapet; corner obelisks and central urns (two damaged obelisks to N lodge). Corniced chimney; ashlar surrounds; clay cans break through pediment in N elevation of N lodge. Decorative rainwater goods; 2 lion head water spouts at W and E elevations; cast-iron hoppers with Lothian sun crest and decoration to E elevations.
The entrance gates have been removed. The port lodges provide a striking entrance to Newbattle Abbey. (Historic Scotland)
