Garden House And Walled Garden, Addistoun House

Garden House and Walled Garden, Addistoun House

This is a 2-storey, asymmetrical L-plan house designed by Charles G Soutar in 1938, drawing on Arts and Crafts principles and Scottish 17th-century architectural references. The house is constructed in oatmeal-coloured dry dash with polished sandstone dressings, raised concrete cills, and a rubble base course. The wallhead sweeps in an unusual concave course under the eaves. Windows on the first floor are bipartite, while ground-floor windows feature timber transomed and mullioned frames.

The entrance elevation faces north-west and features a distinctive circular entrance tower set within the re-entrant angle of the L-block, with a conical roof breaking the eaves. Arced, low steps lead to the door, which has a roll-moulded architrave and is flanked by narrow windows. A long, narrow window sits directly above at first-floor level. The left side of this elevation comprises a 3-bay lower block with a single ground window and bipartite windows to the centre bay, topped by a swept dormerhead that breaks the eaves. A blank bay appears at the outer left. A swept concave wall of dry dash with ashlar coping encloses an area to the east. To the right of the tower, a taller projecting block protrudes with a single-bay return. The north elevation extends with a 2-bay section, divided by the tall wall of the walled garden; a window sits to the left of this wall at ground level, with a bipartite window at first-floor level. Beyond the wall to the right are a bipartite window at ground-floor outer left, a single window at ground-floor outer right, and a large stair window with transomed and mullioned frames at the centre.

The east elevation creates a court effect, with the walled garden to the south and a swept partial-enclosing curtain wall to the north. A round-headed gateway provides entrance to the garden. The elevation is asymmetrical, with an off-centre door to the right, boarded and fitted with a 3-pane fanlight, flanked by windows. A swept dormerhead breaks the eaves at the centre. A single window appears at ground-floor outer left, and a boarded door sits at ground level to the right. A flat-roofed garage and stores stand opposite.

The west elevation is symmetrical in a 2-bay arrangement, with large windows at ground level and bipartite windows at first floor.

The south elevation is asymmetrical. A projecting block sits off-centre to the right, featuring two tall windows at ground level and a bipartite window at first floor, with a similar arrangement in a single-bay right return. A lower 3-bay asymmetrical block extends to the outer right, with windows at the centre ground and narrow windows in the outer left and right bays; two swept dormerheads break the eaves. A single-storey, flat-roofed conservatory with dry dash construction and concrete coping sits in the re-entrant angle to the left, featuring a large round-arched window in its south elevation and two glazed round-arched doors on the return. A lean-to projection extends at ground level on the return, with a window above and a regular bay to the outer left.

Throughout, the building is roofed in brown, graded stone slate with a piended profile, concrete ridge, and rendered, coped stacks. Windows are fitted with leaded casements.

The interior was not inspected as of 1992.

The walled garden to the west of the house was restored and rebuilt from 1938. It features high rubble walls with harl pointing and slab coping. An archway in the north-east wall, similar in style to the archway into the south garden, provides access. A garden house occupies the north-west corner of the wall, built to a square plan with a stone forestair leading to a door at first-floor level. It is roofed with thick, brown stone slates in a piended profile.

The garden setting includes several notable features. The orchard wall to the west is probably 17th century, constructed of random rubble with some harl pointing and features a sandstone archway with bolection moulding. The wall to the south-west of the house is mid 19th century random rubble masonry. Terrace walls of mid 19th-century date define the main garden to the south of the house; built of rubble with harl pointing and ashlar slab coping, they are stepped at either end, with steps supported on ashlar relieving arches and featuring pink sandstone ashlar pier balusters. A sundial rests on the south terrace coping. A drystone circular wellhead with ashlar coping stands to the north-west of the house in the entrance court, fitted with a simple decorative wrought-iron overthrow.