Camperdown Zoo, Camperdown Park, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1993. Walled garden, former kitchen garden.
Camperdown Zoo, Camperdown Park, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- long-vestry-falcon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1993
- Type
- Walled garden, former kitchen garden
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John Hay 1807. Large rectangular walled garden with rubble-built external walls and ashlar copes. Cavity brick-built internal face. Large segmental arched openings.
N ELEVATION:"Pineapple House": projecting ashlar pavilion with arched openings, impost-level band course and main cornice, slate roof and pineapple finial. Lean-to worksheds with large gable openings, that to W somewhat altered, that to E 10-bay (6 windows and 4 doors) adjoining modern 2-storey house.
Gardeners house at NE angle 2-storey with overhanging eaves, brick-built gable to garden with ashlar dressings, cornices and vertically channelled stacks. Windows sash and case.
Internal arrangement of terracing and comparments removed to form zoo. Unusual form of cast-iron framed greenhouses, replaced by standard aluminium circa 1980.
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