SMR 2078 / NS 8946 7231
In 1872 John Paton, an Edinburgh publisher, purchased the small estate of Avonhill and erected a substantial Scottish Baronial style mansion there. Over the years James Paton expanded the estate by acquiring small pieces of land whenever opportunity arose. In 1883 he bought a thin strip of ground in Badcur from Elizabeth Gaston Ralston Waddell to provide a main western drive, at the end of which a lodge was built in the same style as the main house.
Its crowstepped western gable faces on to the road and is made of snecked sandstone rubble. The windows here are symmetrically placed, with two windows on the attic floor over three on the ground floor. To the left (north) was a two-storey corbelled and battlemented tower. The main door fronted the drive which lay on the south side of the house.
The Lodge is now a dwelling house.
Falkirk Local History Society 