Walled Garden, Glamis Castle

The Walled Garden at Glamis Castle, designed by Archibald Fowler of Castle Kennedy in 1866, covers an area of five acres. It features red brick walls topped with flat ashlar coping, which are heightened to the north to accommodate a heating system. The garden is accessed through classical ashlar gateways and wrought-iron gates, and it includes a complete range of rubble outbuildings to the north.

The gateways to the southeast, southwest, and northeast are located at the center of each elevation. They have ashlar flanking piers with outer faces that feature pilaster strips of pulvinated bands and decorative details below the string course. These details include a floreate roundel that abuts a cavetto cornice with flat coping, which likely once had finials. The wrought-iron gates display guilloche detail on the arch, adorned with rinceau cresting, scallop, crown, and spike finials at the apex. There are also flanking pedestrian gateways with roll-moulded arrises.

On the northwest elevation of the northwest boundary, the central bay features squared rubble and a round-headed, roll-moulded gateway with voussoirs. This gateway has a two-leaf panelled timber door below a two-leaf door in the tympanum, with a carved lion statue positioned above on the wallhead. The flanking bays consist of a full-width range of lean-to, crow-stepped outbuildings or dwellings made of dressed rubble with stop-chamfered arrises. There is a variety of openings, including small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, vertical astragals, and timber doors, along with slate and corrugated-iron roofing and shouldered coped ashlar stacks.

The southeast elevation of the northwest boundary features a range of lean-to greenhouses, which have an ashlar base and timber astragals and doors.