Walled Garden And Store, Colinton House, Colinton Road, Edinburgh

The Walled Garden and Store at Colinton House on Colinton Road in Edinburgh was designed by John Fraser and laid out by William Forsyth between 1801 and 1802. This rectangular walled garden features both pedestrian and vehicular access and is constructed of plain red brick with partial rubble walls. It has ashlar copes, corner quoins, and door surrounds. The garden includes a single-storey rectangular garden store made of coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and an eaves course.

The northwest elevation, which was formerly the principal elevation, has a high plain brick wall with stepped ashlar copes and quoins. It features plain ashlar door surrounds with a later timber door flanking a centrally placed single-storey structure that has been altered and is now a rifle range. The northeast elevation, now the principal elevation, also has a high plain brick wall with ashlar copes and quoins, and it includes a large central vehicular access with a garden house abutting the wall to the right.

The southeast elevation consists of a brick hot wall with a central plain ashlar door surround and a later timber door, along with ashlar copes and corner quoins. There are numerous iron nails on the exterior for supporting espalier fruit trees. The southwest elevation features a high plain brick wall with ashlar copes and quoins, a centrally placed door with an ashlar surround, and a later timber planked door.

Inside, the garden is enclosed by brick walls and contains a grassed area with a football pitch and flower beds. Original features like hothouses have been removed, replaced by a 1930 sanatorium known as Pringle House.

The garden store's southwest elevation has a central ashlar door surround with droved margins and a panelled timber door. The southeast elevation is a blind rubble wall with the remains of a lowered central ashlar wall head stack. The northeast elevation features a central tripartite window with ashlar sills, lintels, and mullions, while the northwest elevation has a symmetrically placed pair of windows with ashlar surrounds and slightly projecting sills.

The interior was not seen in 2002 but was in use as a store. The northeast elevation has 12-pane timber sash and case windows in the tripartite window, and the northwest elevation has 2-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is piended with grey slate and has replacement aluminium flashing, and the overhanging roof eliminates the need for rainwater goods. There is a single ashlar stack on the southwest elevation, which has been lowered with missing cans.