Walled Garden, Bogangreen, Coldingham

Bogangreen House is a symmetrical classical mansion built in the later 18th century, with subsequent additions and alterations. It is a three-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan building with a single-storey service wing at the rear. The house is harled with cream sandstone ashlar dressings, featuring a base course, lintel course, corniced eaves and blocking course to the front elevation. Rusticated quoins articulate the front; narrow quoin strips appear at the rear; plain margins and projecting cills are used throughout.

The entrance elevation faces east and displays a stepped approach to a part-glazed, two-leaf timber panelled door at ground level, centrally positioned and topped with a batwing fanlight. The doorpiece is distinguished by engaged Tuscan columns and a dentilled pediment. Single windows flank the entrance at ground level. A single window is centred at first floor level, while the flanking bays contain pilastered and corniced tripartite windows, which were formerly Venetian windows. The second floor carries squat single windows in all bays, and a blind thermal window occupies the central wallhead pediment.

The north side elevation is largely blank to the principal block, with only a single window visible in the recessed single-storey service wing at its outer right. The west rear elevation shows the principal block with a large round-arched stair window at its centre, single windows at ground and second floors to the left, and single windows at all floors to the right. A blind gabled service wing projects at the centre with a modern lean-to carport adjoining to the right.

The south side elevation displays a single window at ground level to the right of the principal block, with the service wing recessed to the outer left and a lean-to carport adjoining a courtyard wall to the front.

The windows are fitted with plate glass in six- and twelve-pane glazing within timber sash and case frames. A grey slate piended roof crowns the building, with harled, corniced and shouldered wallhead stacks positioned at north and south, fitted with various circular cans.

The interior contains timber panelled doors and shutters throughout. Three timber and composition chimneypieces are present. Decorative plaster cornices and roses adorn the rooms, with the drawing room cornice retaining its original colour scheme. A stair with timber balustrade and handrail ascends through the house. The dining room retains original shaped shelves within its presses, and dado panelling lines both the dining and drawing rooms.

Associated with the main house is a single-storey stable block with an attic, built on a rectangular plan and incorporated within the north wall of the walled garden. Constructed from heavily-pointed rubble with tooled rubble dressings, the entrance elevation to the north displays two cart openings at ground level to the right (the outer right being segmental-arched), two pedestrian doors and two windows at ground level to the left, and a piended hayloft opening breaking the eaves off-set to the left of centre. The southern elevation facing the walled garden is blind. The stable block is roofed in grey slate with a piended form and ridge ventilators.

The walled garden is a near square-plan enclosure of approximately 1,600 square metres to the south-west of the house, bounded by heavily-pointed coped rubble walls reaching approximately fifteen feet in height in places. No remains of a formal garden layout survive within the walls.

Rubble boundary walls, partially enclosing the wider site, include quadrant walls flanking the entrance to the south, which are surmounted by arched coping. Pyramidal-capped, square-plan sandstone gatepiers mark the entrance, fitted with hooped iron gates.

The house is recorded in the Ordnance Survey Name Book as "a neat and substantial farm house, pleasantly situated, having a neat walled garden and offices attached." It represents a well-detailed and essentially intact example of the late 18th century classical house type. Features of particular note include the columnar doorpiece and the large stair opening at the rear elevation. The survival of the associated stable block, walled garden and boundary walls significantly enhance the importance of the site. The reinstatement of the original Venetian window form in the flanking bays of the first floor would restore the building to its full classical dignity.