Walled Garden, Garden Plantation, Gosford House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 January 1993.
Walled Garden, Garden Plantation, Gosford House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-steel-evening
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1993
- OS grid reference
- NT 457 791
- Coordinates
- 56.00198, -2.87192
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century walled garden, located within the Garden Plantation at Gosford House. The garden measures approximately 150 by 100 metres and is enclosed by rubble walls with ashlar coping. The south-facing walls are lined with brick and incorporate five segmental arches defining a central dividing wall. A south-facing lean-to greenhouse is attached to the north wall on the western side, built on an ashlar base course and topped with an ashlar coped parapet featuring two sculpted swans. The swans are a Wemyss family emblem, also visible on Gosford House and Stables. Other greenhouses that originally stood along the north wall have been removed. The Bothy Cottage (formerly a potting shed) and Gardener’s Cottage are listed as separate buildings. The garden is part of a wider group of buildings associated with the Gosford Estate. Historical records, including an Ordnance Survey map from 1854, document the site.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Garden Plantation, Gosford House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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