Gardens House And Walled Garden, Gardens House

Gardens House and the Walled Garden date from the early 19th century. Gardens House is a single-storey and attic, symmetrical, three-bay, rectangular-plan Gothick gardener's house. It features distinctive gothic-arched windows and deep eaves with exposed rafter ends on the south side of the walled garden. The house has semi-circular arched doorways with two-leaf timber doors on the front and rear elevations, which include Gothic pointed lights in their upper parts. The exterior is made of red dressed stone with cream freestone dressings on the front and side elevations, while the rear elevation is constructed of rubble with cherry cocking and red sandstone dressings. It is located to the north of the walled garden and includes a base course, eaves course, and long and short quoins. The pointed windows have Y-tracery and lying panes in the timber casements below. The house also features diagonal shafted stacks and a grey slate roof.

The Walled Garden is mainly from the early 19th century, likely dating from 1802-1803. It is a large, roughly square-plan garden enclosed by walls, which includes four ashlar chimneys, a quatrefoil opening, and remnants of hot houses on a raised terrace to the north. There is a timber doorway that provides access to former potting sheds located outside the garden to the north. The main entrance is on the south side, while there is an entrance for the occupants of Pitlour House on the east side through a timber door. The walls are made of droved red squared rubble with cream quoins and dressings, topped with a simple ashlar cope, and partly constructed of brick on the north elevation.