Apple House And Walled Garden With Garden House, Fasque

The Garden House, probably designed by John Paterson in 1792, is notable for its bowed north elevation and towers which were likely added in the mid-19th century. The exterior was restored in 2007-08. A particularly unusual feature is the survival of a rare two-storey, pyramid-roofed Apple House, with flanking polygonal three-stage towers, built into the centre of a large, subdivided walled garden. The walled garden also includes a crenellated tower at the south gate and a later 19th-century garden house incorporated at the southwest corner. The complex is situated to the south and slightly west of Fasque House, within extensive wooded grounds.

The Apple House is constructed from squared and snecked rubble, with some Aberdeen bond and areas of cherry caulking, roughly squared dressings and voussoirs. It has decorative astragal glazing in round- and pointed-arch windows, and blind quatrefoils to the towers. The garden walls are built from flat-coped red brick, stepped and fluted at the north. The symmetrical south elevation of the Apple House features two square-headed windows on each floor, with a stack rising from the centre of the wallhead. Set-back towers abut the dividing garden wall, each with a pointed-arch window at the second stage below a quatrefoil at the third stage; a stair tower is located to the left with a door. The north elevation incorporates a replaced loggia and trelliswork (2007-08), and a set-back face with a pair of six-panelled timber doors flanking a boarded timber dado. The upper stages of the towers mirror the south elevation.

Inside the Apple House, a turnpike stair rises in the west tower with simple timber balusters at the landing and a domed ceiling. The windows are a mix of 8- and 12-pane timber sash and case, with small grey slates covering the roof and a coped ashlar stack.

The walled garden is constructed in three stages. The southeast wall has a square-plan castellated entrance, featuring round-arched doorways and blind pointed arch recesses. A pedestrian opening is located immediately west of the Apple House. Other features include an oval pond with ironwork railings to the south garden, and remnants of glasshouses along the inner elevation of the brick-lined, fluted north wall, which shows evidence of decorative ironwork. The garden house is a single-storey and attic building with a gabled, L-plan and a single-storey lean-to wing; its north-facing elevations form part of the garden wall.