Walled Garden, Ormiston Hall Estate is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1992.

Walled Garden, Ormiston Hall Estate

WRENN ID
eastward-moulding-dawn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1992
OS grid reference
NT 413 679
Coordinates
55.90108, -2.93967
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Belsis Cottage is a later 19th-century gardener's house located on the Ormiston Hall Estate. This two-storey building is constructed of coursed cream sandstone, though it features modern raised pointing and concrete repairs to the ashlar margins. The cottage has a cavetto cornice and three bays on the main elevation that are grouped towards the center. It includes a wide doorway with two-leaf doors, with windows in the flanking bays and on each floor above. The rear elevation is incorporated into the garden wall, and there is a single-storey piend roofed addition on the outer side, with a first-floor window above.

The windows are sash and case style, featuring a 12-pane glazing pattern, and the piend roof is covered with grey slates. The central stack is rendered and lined.

The walled garden is surrounded by high rubble cream sandstone walls with ashlar coping, enclosing a large garden that slopes to the south. It is connected to the gardener's cottage at the southeast corner, with additional garden space formed by inner walls at the same corner, which incorporate the side elevation of the cottage. The north wall has evenly spaced, coped, sett-off buttresses. There are segmentally arched wide entrances with ashlar surrounds and corniced pilasters. A pointed arch pedestrian entrance, currently blocked, features a rubble surround and a depressed arch niche above that contains a carved thistle.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Ormiston Hall Estate receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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