Gardener's House, Walled Garden, Glenferness House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 November 1983. Walled garden, cottage.
Gardener's House, Walled Garden, Glenferness House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-keystone-birch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1983
- Type
- Walled garden, cottage
- OS grid reference
- NH 937 430
- Coordinates
- 57.46494, -3.77261
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gardener's House, located within the walled garden of Glenferness House, is a two-storey, three-bay cottage constructed from mixed rubble with grey tooled granite dressings. It features a bracketed cornice above the central door and the flanking windows, along with two small windows in the outer bays on the first floor. The windows have four and six-pane glazing, and there is a central ridge stack. The cottage has a piended slate roof.
The east gable of the cottage is built into the east wall of the large walled garden, with a window that looks into the garden. The garden itself is enclosed by coped rubble walls and is open on the south side.
Local climate
Gardener's House, Walled Garden, Glenferness House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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