Smallack Kitchen Garden

Walled kitchen garden, thought to have been constructed in the C18.

MATERIALS: constructed of local shale, with slate coping.

PLAN: the walls form a rectangle, on a south-west/north-east axis, with the longer sides to south-east and north-west. The garden measures 27.5 metres by 21.3 metres. The garden is entered by an opening at the centre of the south-west wall.

DETAILS: the walls vary in height, but reach to an average of about 2.25 metres. The walls are strengthened with shallow buttresses. The slate coping, much of which has been replaced to the original design, slopes to a ridge. The piers at the entrance to the garden are plain, and square on plan, surmounted by an additional level of coping; a small element of carved stone was inserted into one of the piers in the late-C20. In the south-west corner a small roofed building has been constructed in the late C20, making use of the garden walls.