Walled Garden, Knock Castle is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 August 1985.
Walled Garden, Knock Castle
- WRENN ID
- frozen-latch-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1985
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The walled garden at Knock Castle was probably remodelled or rebuilt around 1852 by J T Rochead. It is a rectangular garden enclosure defined by yellow brick walls topped with red ashlar coping slabs. Red ashlar gatepiers, also castellated, support wrought-iron gates. A long glass house range runs along the north wall, featuring a distinctive polygonal centrepiece. A castellated turret is centrally located on the west wall, accessed by steps from the garden, and featuring four round-headed openings. A continuous string course sits above these openings, rising to a corbelled and crenellated parapet.
Historical records, including a plan from 1847 in the Strathclyde Regional Archives (T-PM 134/113), show a simpler rectangular garden enclosure originally existed on the site. The turret is marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854.
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