Gardener's House And Greenhouses, Yester House

The Gardener's House and Greenhouses at Yester House likely originated from designs by John Adam around 1725, with later additions and alterations. It is located to the west of Yester House.

The Gardener's House, dating from around 1750, is a two-storey, three-bay structure attached to the north wall of the walled garden. It is built from red rubble sandstone with ashlar dressing. The north elevation features a slightly advanced, gabled entrance bay at the center, which includes a first-floor window and a blocked oculus in the gable head. There is a small-pane fanlight above the entrance, with windows in the flanking bays on each floor. To the east and west, there are stone garden sheds with pentice roofs. The south elevation, facing the garden, is incorporated into the wall of the walled garden at ground level and features a superimposed Gothick screen at the first floor that rises above the eaves and has a cornice. This screen includes three blind pointed-arch windows with hoodmoulds and dormerheads behind the corniced front, along with square recesses flanking the windows, which currently display classical busts. The house has small-pane glazing patterns in its sash and case windows, end stacks, and a grey slate piend roof.

The walled garden features rubble walls that are ashlar-coped and brick-lined. An earlier 19th-century serpentine coping has been added to the principal wall. The main gateway consists of corniced ashlar piers that support gadrooned urn finials and flank decorative wrought-iron Arts and Crafts gates from around 1900, complete with a semi-circular overthrow. There is also a lesser pedestrian gateway nearby, featuring similarly designed gates. Another gateway flanking the Gardener's House, possibly relocated from Yester House, has a narrow opening with a lugged and pedimented marble surround, scrolled detail at the base, and a pulvinated frieze adorned with acanthus ornament and carved detail in the pediment. This gateway includes two-leaf simple but decorative wrought-iron gates. Lean-to hot-houses are attached to the north wall of the walled garden. The hot-houses include fine glasshouses to the north of the walled garden, possibly including a peach house designed by Andrew Wood in 1791 and vineries designed by Andrew Sheaver around 1850, as noted in the Garden Inventory of 1988.

Additionally, there is a polychrome, square-section brick stalk located by the hot-houses to the north of the walled garden.