Walled Garden, Gelston Castle

The walled garden at Gelston Castle dates to approximately 1805 and was originally an ornamental stable block, likely designed by the architect of Gelston Castle, Richard Crichton. The building consists of four two-storey ranges arranged around a courtyard. The rear elevations are of painted rubble or brick, while the facade is of finely dressed red ashlar. It was converted into a complex of holiday flats around 1970. The main facade is symmetrical and in a Gothic castellated style, with taller pavilions at each end featuring arched carriage entrances on the ground floor. A central pend is topped by a hexagonal tower. The building has a corbelled crenellated parapet with small corbelled angle bartizans. The two-stage tower above the pend features a similarly detailed parapet, with hood-moulded bipartite windows to the first stage and single lights to the second, and a corbelled parapet. The ranges to the south, east, and west have numerous inserted windows with concrete, painted margins, some set into blocked cart arches, all with multi-pane sashes. Slate roofs cover the entire building.

To the west, there are ornamental walls constructed of bull-faced rubble with a crenellated parapet and decorative arrow slits. A Roman Doric xedra niche is incorporated into the west wall. Behind the stables is a coped rubble wall enclosing the garden. The walled garden is part of the wider Gelston Castle group.