Walled Garden, Aberlour House

The Walled Garden at Aberlour House, dating from around 1840 and likely designed by William Robertson, features a loggia with later additions including an entrance by A and W Reid from 1855 to 1860 and another entrance by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1893. The garden is large and irregularly shaped, roughly semi-circular, with rubble walls lined with brick on the inner face, topped with a tooled ashlar coping and polished ashlar dressings.

The loggia, also from circa 1840, has a pedimented tetrastyle design and is supported by four unfluted Greek Doric columns, projecting into the garden from the eastern portion of the wall, near a recently widened entrance. The long, straight western wall separates the garden from the house policies and features two arched decorative entrances.

The southern entrance, designed by A and W Reid around 1855 to 1860, includes a pedimented archway with a round-headed keystoned arch that is flanked by channelled ashlar pilasters. It is adorned with cast-iron gates and trellis piers. The northern entrance, created by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1893, has tall channelled rusticated ashlar piers that flank a round-headed archway, featuring pineapple finials with scroll brackets and intricate carved shell, fruit, and flower ornamentation. Inscriptions are carved around the head of the arch on both faces, with an initialled plaque to the right of the gateway on the outer face. This entrance is completed with a pair of decorative wrought-iron gates. Additionally, various carved stone plaques and roundels depicting beasts and flowers are set near the gates on both faces.