Walled Garden, Amisfield Park is a Grade A listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Garden. 4 related planning applications.
Walled Garden, Amisfield Park
- WRENN ID
- idle-oriel-sable
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Garden
- Address
- Walled Garden, Amisfield Park, EH41 4PT
- OS grid reference
- NT 533 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95846, -2.74932
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Amisfield Park, designed by John Henderson, features a datestone from 1786, although the walls may date back earlier. This large walled garden has a severe Roman neo-classical style and a square plan. It includes four circular corner pavilions that were originally domed and have niches, a cornice, and stepped copings. The tetrastyle porticos, which are set diagonally in the corners, are designed in Roman Doric style with coupled end columns, totaling six columns flanking the doorways. The eastern wall has a segmentally arched gateway with a keystone and impost blocks, while the southern wall features an architraved doorway with a frieze and cornice. The structure is built from squared and coursed conglomerate rubble, with ashlar used in the pavilions and columns made from single blocks of Craigleith sandstone. The projecting ashlar cope on the wall continues as a band course in the pavilions.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Amisfield Park receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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