Garden, Valleyfield House

The Garden at Valleyfield House is part of the pleasure grounds designed by Humphry Repton, created as artificial features to contrast with the surrounding picturesque landscape, dating from around 1800 to 1804.

The walled flower garden is a slightly later addition within this period. It is rectangular, with walls on three sides and a canal to the south. The walls are made of random rubble, lined with brick, and feature droved ashlar and polished sandstone ashlar dressings at the entrances. Inside the garden, there are remains of storage chambers, two of which have brick groin vaults located on the north side of the north wall.

Within the walled garden, there is a formal terrace that includes symmetrical flights of stairs, which are swept in convex curves. The stairs have polished ashlar moulded treads, squared and stugged rubble piers, stugged copings, and brick patching. To the north of the garden, there is a ha-ha and an avenue of trees that serve to screen the walled garden from the carriage drive.

An arched gateway to the west features a picturesque "ruined" design, constructed with droved ashlar and rubble masonry, and has a wide raised margin at the lower base course.

To the south, the canal or fishpond encloses the walled garden. It is a long, narrow formal strip with a sluice to the east. The Bluther Burn forks to the west, surrounding a vesica-shaped island, as illustrated in the Red Book plan. There is also a weir at the southern end of the island.

An early 19th-century single-span arched footbridge to the west is made of sandstone ashlar, featuring a raised margin at the arch voussoirs, although the parapet has been rebuilt in concrete.