Lodge at Argyll Motor Works (Former), North Main Street, Alexandria

LODGE: single storey, L-plan lodge house. Red sandstone, base course. 2 half glazed doors to left, piend-roofed block to right, boarded door and window.2-storey and attic Baroque, richly detailed industrial and office range with symmetrical wings. Long rectangular-plan. Red sandstone ashlar with pink ashlar dressings, marble columns. Base course, deep entablature with mutuled cornice; ashlar parapet over centre block with raised die, large ball finials; pierced balustraded parapet over wings. (Historic Scotland)

This complex was reckoned one of the largest motor-car factories in Europe when new, but only built cars to 1913. Latterly used as a Royal Naval Torpedo Factory. (J Hume, RCAHMS)

October 2008: External inspection reveals that the lodge is vacant with most of the windows boarded over. The roof is in a state of disrepair as there are many loose and missing slates. The guttering also appears to be blocked.

February 2011: External inspection finds that since our previous visit the condition of the roof has worstened: more tiles have been lost and the ridges have deteriorated. The gutters are in need of maintenance: removing plant growth and repairing buckling sections.

24 April 2013: External inspection finds no signficant change from the previous site visit.

3 March 2020: External inspection finds the house remains disused and vacant and in much the same condition as seen previously. Deterioration continues.