Walled Garden And Ha-Ha, Moncreiffe Estate is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Garden, orchard.
Walled Garden And Ha-Ha, Moncreiffe Estate
- WRENN ID
- peeling-chancel-sunrise
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 2010
- Type
- Garden, orchard
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1726, William McGaw, mason from Newburgh, Fife. Fine large rectangular-plan walled garden and adjoining part-walled orchard sited to E of Moncreiffe House at foot of Moncreiffe Hill with open S aspect to take full advantage of sun and winter light. Ha-ha, sited to form visual link between Walled Garden and Moncreiffe House, and demarcating pleasure garden area at E house from track and less formal walks across Moncreiffe Hill to N.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION:
WALLED GARDEN: high flat-coped rubble walls with large roughly squared sandstone quoins, margins and lintels. Early studded timber door to W, decorative ironwork pedestrian gate to S and broad segmentally-arched entrance to NW. N wall has remains of greenhouses to S elevation and potting shed to N.
HA-HA: roughly coursed snecked rubble ha-ha.
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