Walled Garden, Carriden House, Bo'Ness is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. Walled garden, gardener's house.

Walled Garden, Carriden House, Bo'Ness

WRENN ID
little-gutter-fog
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Falkirk
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 November 1980
Type
Walled garden, gardener's house
OS grid reference
NT 021 807
Coordinates
56.0098, -3.5706
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Carriden House in Bo'Ness dates from the later to late 18th century and features a large rectangular plan measuring approximately 120 meters by 70 meters. It includes a ruinous classical gardener's house, which has a datestone indicating it was built in 1909 on the outer face of the north elevation.

The walled garden is enclosed by a high sandstone rubble wall, which has an internal facing of red brick and an external brick surface on the south wall. The top of the wall is finished with flat ashlar coping and features ashlar dressings. There are arched openings on the north, south, and west elevations. The east elevation has square gatepiers that support a deteriorated iron gate. Evidence of glasshouses can be seen on the north wall, both internally and externally.

The gardener's house, located against the north wall, is a single-storey, three-bay structure that is now ruinous and overgrown. It is constructed of squared and snecked tooled sandstone and has a central doorway with a datestone from 1909 above it. To the right of the doorway, there are remains of a canted bay window, and at the far right, a bold projecting angled Tuscan column can be seen. The building is roofless, and there is also evidence of glasshouses to the north.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Carriden House, Bo'Ness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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