South Lodge Pitfour

South Lodge from the Line

Seen from the Line the Lodge looks like a displaced council house and was infact almost certainly two semi-detached houses when it was originally built around 1850. The Lodge was extensively altered around 1910 and is now a single dwelling.
 

 Although this was the main entrance to the estate the lodge and imposing gateway were not constructed until about 1850 about thirty years later than the West and East Lodges

As befits the principal  entrance the gateway is  impressive. Incorporated in the entrance is an impossing memorial to   William Pitt, The Younger and Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, two close parliamentary  friends of James Ferguson MP, 3rd Laird of Pitfour.  The monument consists of two granite pillars topped by Grecian urns flanking curving, low walls bounding the entrance. A large stone panel on the east side of the entrance has a Latin inscription commemorating Pitt and Dundas. This translates as 'To the memory of William Pitt and Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville. Men of ancient virtue. This tribute, from the most durable native granite -than which their fame shall be more lasting - is given by James Ferguson of Pitfour, in the year of Salvation, 1816'.

The wall bounding the estate is  over 5 km long and in places 2mtres high. It  was built at the behest of  James Ferguson MP probably to give employment to his tenants during periods of hardship.