Porter's Lodge Thomas Mackenzie, 1850. Scottish Baronial. 3-storey, slender rectangular plan, single bay lodge with projecting stair tower rising full height at SW angle and gate arch springing from E elevation. Harled with tooled and polished ashlar dressings and margins. Lodge doorway in E elevation sheltered by thickness of archway, with similar doors across drive to store. Studded plank doors with decorative wrought-iron hinges. Small ground floor NE angle window; corbelled wallhead encircles crowstepped caphouse at 2nd floor, with access to wallhead from stairtower, small pepperpot bartizan at NE and small square open bartizans at SE and NW angles. Multi-pane glazing; moulded copes to end stacks; fish-scale Banffshire slate roofs to bellcast turrets; similar slates to caphouse. Round-headed gate arch with crenellated overthrow. Moulded and nailhead surround to archway flanked by dummy shot holes (probably formerly housing bellpulls); coat of arms in square plaque with cable moulded border above archway (S) and monogram (N). Pair iron gates in style of yett fitting shape of round-headed archway when closed. (source: Historic Scotland) COPYRIGHT VIOLATION: Website: www.weheartit.com (removed) COPYRIGHT VIOLATION: Website: cdn.houle.co.uk/images/AreaImages/coverimage/Ballindalloc...