Walled Garden, Kingston House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 December 1988. Farmhouse.

Walled Garden, Kingston House

WRENN ID
crooked-railing-dust
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 December 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Kingston House is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey and basement farmhouse featuring three bays and classically detailed architecture. It has two-storey wings that have been raised and altered on the west side. The structure is built of rubble, with the south and west wings harled and painted ashlar dressings. A raised basement course is present.

On the southeast elevation, there is a raised central bay with wide outer angle pilasters, topped by small half-pitched roofs. A flat-roofed porch addition, dated 1878, projects from the center and partly oversails the basement. This porch features a round-arched doorway with a decorative fanlight set in a pilastered surround. The elevation also includes a cornice blocking course and urn finials, with symmetrical windows to the east and west.

The northeast elevation displays three symmetrical window bays for the main house, also with a raised basement. The west wing was raised and enlarged in 1920, with a garage opening added at the ground level to the west. There is a canted angle oriel on the southwest with five lights.

The east wing is a low two-storey service wing that has a piend-roofed outbuilding attached at the center, featuring two first-floor windows. The sash and case windows have 12-pane glazing, and the main house has shouldered, broad end stacks with ashlar coping. The roofs are covered with piended slate. A decorative sundial is located on the south elevation.

The large walled garden lies to the south of the house, surrounded by high rubble walls with rubble coping and a round-arched gateway to the north in a curved angle.

Additionally, there is a summerhouse or folly, which is a circular brick garden house topped with a conical brick roof. The external walls have decorative applied shell ornamentation, which is in poor condition as of 1987. It features a small square light to the north and a doorway to the south. The interior walls retain almost intact decorative shell ornamentation.

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