Garden Features And Terraces To Se Of House, The Glen is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 2003. Garden features.
Garden Features And Terraces To Se Of House, The Glen
- WRENN ID
- waning-kitchen-holly
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 August 2003
- Type
- Garden features
- OS grid reference
- NT 298 330
- Coordinates
- 55.58575, -3.11509
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The garden features and terraces to the south of The Glen date primarily from 1854, designed by David Bryce, with significant alterations around 1905 by Robert Lorimer, further changes in 1911, and gates added in 1914 by Thomas Haddon. The layout includes a wall separating the garden from the entrance courtyard, featuring a flight of steps and tall gatepiers topped with lions, and wrought-iron gates. Throughout the garden, there are a series of harled rubble terrace walls with stone steps, along with ashlar garden benches and a semi-circular flight of steps.
The main entrance, or lion gateway, features squared piers with stone vases at the base of the parapet walls flanking steps, and tall piers to the rear with moulded caps and seated lions at the top. The wrought-iron gates have ornate scrolled side panels and an overthrow. A terrace wall, also with vases, runs along the flanks, meeting the house to the left and a wall associated with a swimming pool to the right.
The southeastern and lower terraces include a small harled rubble retaining wall with a narrow flight of stone steps. The upper terrace is integrated with the front of the main house. Paired harled walls form the lower terrace, with flights of stone steps in the western angles. Stone benches, with arched pediments, scrolled sides, and ball finials, are positioned to the southwest and northeast of the terrace. Further wrought-iron gates, with tulip dog bars, foliate upper bands, the initials “P and G” and the date 1914 (believed to be Thomas Haddon's work), are to the southeast of the lower terrace.
The upper terraces consist of three harled rubble retaining walls, with narrow flights of stone steps between them, creating terraces that ascend to the northwest of the house. Stone-flagged walks lead to the highest southwest terrace, accessed by a wide semicircular flight of stone steps and straight steps between wing walls. A classically styled stone bench is on the northwest terrace, with a stone inset into the terrace wall bearing the inscription "PAMELA HER GARDEN 1911."
Local climate
Garden Features And Terraces To Se Of House, The Glen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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