East walled garden is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 January 1979.
East walled garden
- WRENN ID
- long-chamber-yarrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1979
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gardener's House is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay gardener's house that is integrated into the northern wall of a wedge-shaped walled garden, with a large square-plan walled garden to the east. The house features a near-symmetrical design with an advanced central Doric porch on the north side. It is constructed from stugged, coursed sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, and includes a base course, raised margins, cills, and a cornice. The west elevation has a two-bay gable and three blocked openings.
On the entrance elevation to the north, the central advanced flat-roofed Doric porch is flanked by a corniced window opening on the left and a two-light canted bay window on the right. There is a single-storey rubble section to the far left, which contains a pair of window openings and an arched ashlar opening.
The rear elevation to the south is incorporated into the northern wall of the walled garden and is made of brick with ashlar margins. It features three windows with ashlar margins on the upper storey, above the garden wall, and a later brick single-storey conservatory.
The interior, partially seen in 2011, retains much of the original room layout. It includes a curved staircase with slender decorative iron balusters and a fire-damaged banister. The house has predominantly non-traditional replacement windows with a lying-pane glazing pattern, a pitched roof covered with grey slates, and corniced gable stacks.
The walled garden to the south is wedge-shaped, with coped rubble outer walls and brick inner walls. The wall to the west steps down at the south with curved coping.
The walled garden to the east, designed by John Hay around 1814, is a large, nearly square-plan former walled garden situated on a sloping site. It is subdivided into three sections and features a long internal wall running from east to west. The construction includes rubble, squared stone, ashlar, and brick with slab coping, with some sections featuring a cornice and blocking course. There are angle buttresses at the southern corners, and the internal dividing wall has remains of four brick full-height furnace sheds on the northern elevation, along with remnants of former garden buildings on the southern wall.
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