Garden Wall, Glenormiston House

Early 19th century garden wall and ha-ha; cottage for William Chambers, 1870. Single storey and attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan vernacular gardener's house with single storey, single bay wings and high shouldered stacks. Whitewashed rubble cottage with sandstone angle margins and sandstone windows dressings (droved margins and lintel with chamfered arrises and slightly projecting sills), all with droved tabbed quoins (also whitewashed); rear elevation of cottage plain rubble. High lime and whinstone garden wall with sandstone ashlar quoins and copes, Gibbsian entrances, ball finialled angle piers and matching ha-ha (constructed from stone taken from Ormiston Tower).

GARDEN COTTAGE:

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone step leading to central entrance door with tabbed quoins, droved margins and chamfered arrises, carved upper angles WC to left (William Chambers) and 1870 to right, former 2-leaf timber boarded door (now single leaf) with plain rectangular fanlight above; large windows with chamfered arrises and droved margins flanking door.

N ELEVATION: to right and centre, ashlar window surround with chamfered arrises; to left, single storey flat-roofed squared porch with semi-glazed door in right return, door surround chamfered to match windows of main house, adjoining garden wall to left return.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: plain rubble elevation with ashlar window surrounds with chamfered arrises to left and right, 3 roof lights to attic; later corrugated-iron lean-to adjoining to far left.

S ELEVATION: ashlar window surround with chamfered arrises to left; single storey piend-roofed square outhouse (coal/log shed) below stack with timber boarded door.

2 and 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Pitched grey slate roof with lead ridging and flashing; some later single pane roof lights to rear elevation. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Large shouldered ashlar wallhead stacks to S and N with moulded neck copes and octagonal paired cans (one may be original as it matches style and material of stack).

INTERIOR: room layout as built; skirting boards and interior woodwork survives, as does fire surrounds.

GARDEN WALL AND HA-HA: high lime stone rubble garden wall with segmental copes running S from SE of steading then running SE toward stables; round angle piers with round stone copes and stalked ball finials; arched entrances with projecting keystones and impost stones, timber 2-leaf timber panelled door (one entrance now blind). Arched ha-ha with segmental copes running from W of main house and arching S in front of Garden Cottage.