Gardener's House And Greenhouses, Yester House

Possibly originated by John Adam circa 1725, with later

additions and alterations. Sited to W of Yester House.

GARDENER'S HOUSE: circa 1750. 2-storey, 3-bay house

adjoined to N wall of walled garden; red rubble sandstone

with ashlar dressing. Slightly advanced, gabled entrance

bay to centre of N elevation, with 1st floor window and

blocked oculus in gablehead; small-pane fanlight; windows

in flanking bays at each floor. Pentice roofed, stone

garden sheds adjoined to E and W. S (garden) elevation

incorporated in wall of walled garden at ground, and with

superimposed Gothick screen at 1st floor, rising above

eaves and with cornice; 3 blind pointed-arch windows,

hoodmoulded and with dormerheads behind corniced front;

square recesses flanking windows; currently with classical

busts.

Small-pane glazing patterns in sash and case windows. End

stacks. Grey slate piend roof.

WALLED GARDEN: rubble walls, ashlar coped and brick

lined. Serpentine coping added in earlier 19th century,

to principal wall. Main gateway with corniced ashlar

piers supporting gadrooned urn finials, flanking 2-leaf,

decorative wrought-iron, Arts and Crafts gates, circa

1900, with semi-circular overthrow. Lesser pedestrian

gateway at a distance, with similarly detailed gates.

Further gateway flanking gardener's house, (possibly

moved from Yester House), narrow and with lugged and

pedimented marble surround, scrolled detail by ground;

pulvinated frieze with acanthus ornament and carved

detail in pediment; 2-leaf simple, but decorative

wrought-iron gates. Lean-to hot-houses abutting N wall.

Hot-houses: fine glasshouses to N of wall garden,

possibly including peach house, Andrew Wood, 1791, and

vineries, Andrew Sheaver, circa 1850 (Garden Inventory,

1988).

Stalk: polychrome, square-section brick stalk by hot-houses

to N of walled garden.