Ardverikie Estate Bridge

Official Heritage Listing Information and Findings

Listed At: Category A

Discussion:

List Entry Number: LB6911

Description

John Rhind, circa 1874-8. Rectangular gate lodge with turret. 2 storeys over raised basement. Projecting round stair turret at NE angle with bellcast conical slate roof. Coursed tooled grey granite, contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. Entrance in NW re-entrant formed by turret under slated canopy supported on elaborately carved wooden brackets on N with segmentally arched bench recess at centre. Plank door with decorative cast-iron hinges. Further entrance in raised basement on E elevation. Tripartite in raised ground floor, and bipartite in 1st floor of W gable (to driveway); 2-pane glazing. Off-set lancets encircle stair turret. Coped wallhead stack; slate roof with projecting eaves. Gate piers; pair tall square tooled grey granite ashlar piers rising from battered plinths; bracketted ashlar cornice with pyramid-finial caps. Pair case and wrought-iron carriage gates. Bridge; plain flat arched bridge supported by rubble end abutments; cast-iron lattice girder balustrade.

Statement of Special Interest

The lodge seems to have been built some time after the 1873-8 remodelling of the house but, with the bridge, was extant by the turn of the century. The stables and offices detached to the S of the house at NN5090 8725 were built after the construction of the bridge; prior to this horses and carriages were left at Cromra on the N shore of Loch Laggan, opposite Ardverikie, the final part of the journey being by boat. John Rhind died in 1889.

References

Information courtesy of Mr Chamler and Lady Feilden.