South Lodge, Fingask

Single storey, 3-bay, gothic lodge house with high piend roof. Harled with stone dressings. Gothic windows with trellis tracery. Stone mullions. NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Slightly advanced piended bay to centre with door, traceried tripartite windows to flanking bays. SE (ROAD) ELEVATION: single bay with traceried tripartite windows. SW ELEVATION: door to right with small extension to outer right. All openings blocked. Grey slates. Painted brick stacks with cans. Deeply overhanging eaves. RAILINGS: decorative cast-iron railings.

Presumably the South Lodge for Fingask Castle (Kilspindie Parish) though now totally isolated. (Historic Scotland)

26 July 1996: The Edinburgh Gazette carries notice of a demolition application. SCT objects. November 1996: External inspection reveals the lodge to be boarded-up, having lain empty for a long time. Its whitewash is now peeling. December 1997: Local planners report that outline consent has been granted for a new build house with the retention of the lodge. Works would commence once the new A90 interchange at Inchmichael is completed. October 2000: External inspection reveals the lodge to be continuing to deteriorate. The roof to the rear has collapsed. October 2006: Local planners report listing change to B.

October 2009: External inspection finds that the lodge remains derelict. Most of the render has come off the north wall. Windows and doors are boarded up. The gutters are clear.

27 February 2014: External inspection finds the building remains in much the same condition as seen previously.