Gardener's Cottage, Stevenson House

The site includes potting sheds within a walled garden, a trust cottage, and a gardener’s cottage, all likely associated with Stevenson House.

The walled garden probably dates to the 18th century and has been altered over time. It is quadrangular, enclosed by a wall averaging about 12 feet (4 metres) high. The wall is largely constructed of random rubble with some coursed elements; the interior side of the north wall is brick. The wall has a sandstone ashlar cope. A large, early 19th-century lean-to shed block is set against the exterior of the north wall. It is built of rubble sandstone and conglomerate and features a plain boarded door at each end and two small plate glass windows to the north. The central section is raised to accommodate a garage or cart shed door and is pantiled. A later 19th-century lean-to greenhouse is against the interior of the north wall, with glazing within a timber frame on a brick base. Part of the east wall has been incorporated into a redeveloped steading featuring modern glazing and a conservatory, and also into the trust cottage, which includes a picture window.

The trust cottage dates to 1856 and was modernised in the 1960s. It is symmetrical, with three gables and a traditional design using snecked rubble stonework, with margins broached and droved, and projecting cills. The north (front) elevation has a central four-panelled door flanked by two windows. The south (rear) elevation has a small central window flanked symmetrically by two larger ones. A short, flat-roofed link to the walled garden incorporates a four-panelled door to the south, a small window with modern glazing to the north, and a large picture window to the west in the walled garden. The cottage windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes, and have been replaced with horns. The roof is covered in red pantiles with ashlar skews and two gable stacks, cavetto copes, and cans are missing.

The gardener’s cottage, dating to around 1860, is a single-storey building. It is three bays wide and constructed of squared and snecked brown and grey sandstone with stugged and droved margins. The south (front) elevation is symmetrical, featuring a central four-panelled door with a “letterbox” fanlight, flanked by two windows. A quadripartite bow projects to the west. The plain east elevation has two windows. The rear (north) elevation includes a two-bay projection to the west, and a window and rear door to the east, with a modern timber porch. The windows are timber sash and case with primarily eight panes arranged in lying panes. The roof is piended and covered in graded grey Scotch slate with projecting eaves. A single central ashlar stack with a projecting cope features four cans, one of which is a surviving decorative original.