Walled Garden With Gates And Gate Piers, Mavisbank House

The Walled Garden with Gates and Gate Piers at Mavisbank House dates from around 1730, with significant features added in 1739. It consists of a large horseshoe-shaped walled garden, which has a smaller triangular walled garden adjoining to the southwest. There are gates located to the northwest, northeast, and southeast, with road access from the former dairy to the southwest. On the southern boundary of the horseshoe garden, there are lean-to potting sheds that have been converted into a house and garage.

The garden is constructed from ashlar sandstone with a brick inner facing and features a flat ashlar coping. The northwest gateway includes steps leading up to square-plan channelled sandstone ashlar gatepiers, which have a moulded cornice supported by intricately carved foliate scrolled consoles. This gateway is adorned with decorative iron gates and flanked by wrought-iron railings with arrow-headed designs, although the gateway has been boarded since 1996. The northeast gateway is also square-plan channelled ashlar sandstone, featuring a moulded ashlar cornice and square cap, with arrow-headed wrought-iron gates that are now boarded. The southeast gateway is made of droved sandstone, square-plan and chamfered, with flat ashlar copes and wrought-iron gates that are not currently in use.

The former potting shed, which is a single-storey, four-bay structure located to the south of the garden, has been converted into a cottage. It is built from sandstone rubble and has a painted entrance elevation with a corrugated-iron roof. The shed features a boarded door in the extreme left bay and a 12-pane sash and case window in each of the remaining bays, along with a modern addition at the rear. There is also a lean-to painted sandstone wood shed opposite, which has three boarded doors and a flat, ashlar-coped roof. Additionally, there is a lean-to painted sandstone garage conversion to the east, featuring two sliding boarded garage doors with flanking windows and a corrugated iron roof. The property includes cast-iron rainwater goods.