Walled Garden And Gifford Gates, Whittingehame House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 1990. Garden structure. 1 related planning application.
Walled Garden And Gifford Gates, Whittingehame House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-mortar-pearl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1990
- Type
- Garden structure
- Address
- Walled Garden And Gifford Gates, Whittingehame House, EH41 4QA
- OS grid reference
- NT 602 734
- Coordinates
- 55.95272, -2.6378
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden and Gifford Gates at Whittingehame House include a summer pavilion and gates, both notable for their architectural features. The summer pavilion, dated 1905, is constructed from red sandstone ashlar and has a temple-fronted design. It features a squared, coursed rear and a distyle in antis south front, complete with piers and an elaborate cartouche in the pediment. The pavilion is topped with a leaded roof and is located at the northeast corner of the walled garden.
The Gifford Gates, situated on the eastern wall of the garden and dated 1914, consist of two-leaf gates flanked by panels and an ornate overthrow. These gates are made of wrought iron and are adorned with intricate scroll details, as well as a bell-bugle and foliage design on the overthrow. Above the quadrants, there are railings featuring a variant of the Vitruvian scroll at the top.
Additionally, the quadrant walls and gatepiers leading to the Gifford Gates are made of red brick, with deep ashlar base courses and coping. The channelled ashlar gatepiers have moulded coping, contributing to the overall elegance of the entrance.
Local climate
Walled Garden And Gifford Gates, Whittingehame House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 application
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