Walled Garden With Garden House, Balfour House

The walled garden with garden house at Balfour House is possibly from the 18th century, with some 19th century additions. It features a rectangular plan measuring 100 meters by 100 meters, and includes a two-storey garden house, which may have served as an apple house, located at the southwest corner. There are remains of a triumphal entrance archway beyond the western boundary. The structure is built from roughly coursed rubble and brick, topped with flat ashlar coping and ashlar dressings, and includes segmental arched gateways.

The southern boundary has a wide, segmental arched opening at the center, flanked by five small brick niches on both sides. The garden house is located to the outer left of this opening. The northern boundary has a brick face on the inner southern side, featuring a timber door in a depressed arch opening at the center, with evidence of flanking ogee-shaped buildings, possibly conservatories, and three additional niches on each side. The northern side also contains a variety of semi-derelict lean-to outbuildings.

The western boundary has a segmental arched opening at the center, along with further openings to the outer right and left. The eastern boundary has an opening at the center that is partly demolished to allow entrance for cattle. The archway beyond the western boundary features a central opening below a flat-coped wallhead, flanked by concave sloping wings.

The garden house, set into the southwest corner of the garden and featuring later work, has a west (entrance) elevation with a boarded timber door to the right, next to a corbelled, coped ashlar stack or possibly a blinded window. There is a window to the left with a gabled dormer head that breaks the eaves. The south elevation has a window to the right of center at ground level and another to the left of center at the first floor. The east elevation features a window at the center on both floors. The north elevation has a door to the outer right, a window at the center ground level, and another window to the right of center at the first floor. A brick wall at the center is in poor condition. The garden house currently has no glazing, is covered with grey slates, and has coped ashlar stacks.