Gardens Cottage, Gosford House

Gardens Cottage, also known as Gosford Gardener’s Cottage, is an earlier to mid-19th century single-story T-plan cottage located to the west of the Garden Plantation within the Gosford Estate. The cottage is constructed of squared and snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring chamfered reveals, hoodmoulds, and crowstepped gables, one of which is topped with a ball finial.

The three-bay entrance elevation incorporates an advanced gable to the right and a columned porch in the re-entrant angle. The porch has a crowstepped and finialled ashlar gabled canopy. The entrance door has a six-pane fanlight above it. Stone mullioned Tudor-arch bipartites with lying panes are present to the left and in the advanced gable on the right. A lean-to wooden porch is located at the rear, and the windows are sash and case with lying-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and features coped ashlar stacks.

Historic maps of Haddingtonshire from 1854 and 1892 show the cottage’s location and form. Gardens Cottage is part of a group of buildings associated with the wider Gosford Estate, and further information can be found in notes relating to Gosford House.