Walled Garden, Finzean House is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 2000. Walled garden.

Walled Garden, Finzean House

WRENN ID
third-oriel-dock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 2000
Type
Walled garden
OS grid reference
NO 591 933
Coordinates
57.02978, -2.67446
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Finzean House, dating from the late 19th century, features a near rectangular plan and is gently terraced. The walls are constructed of rubble with coping that slopes down to the south. At the corners of the garden, there are square-plan granite gatepiers topped with spherical finials, located in the quadrant walls. The southern entrance has a cast-iron two-leaf gate, while the eastern wall has square-plan granite gatepiers, although the spherical finials are missing. This entrance is flanked on the left by a doorway that has a panelled and boarded timber gate. There is also a cast-iron gate in the centre of the western wall and the northern walls adjoin Finzean House, which is not listed, featuring a slatted timber gate to the east.

On the eastern wall at the southern end, there is a vertically boarded timber ancillary structure designed in a cottage orne style. This structure has decorative timber barge boards, glazed oriel windows, and a boarded timber door with a timber hoodmould above it. The roof is made of purple-grey slate with a lead ridge, and there is a corniced red brick wallhead stack at the rear.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Finzean House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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