Walled Garden, Traquair House

1749 for Charles Stuart, 5th Earl of Traquair (11th Laird). 3-sided, rectangular-plan walled kitchen garden with canted angle to E and beech hedge in lieu of wall to SE. Tall (18ft high) coursed whinstone and rubble walls with flat ashlar copes. Droved ashlar long and short quoins to doorways in NE and SW with raised plain margins. Turf surmounting most copes.

NE ELEVATION: slightly altered whinstone rubble wall of varying heights with former Gardener's Cottage (now tea room, listed separately) incorporated into angle at right; various entries into garden to centre including a doorway with long and short quoins and later timber boarded door; wall adjoining outbuildings and Garden Cottage (listed separately) to left.

NW (DRIVE) ELEVATION: tall coursed and random whinstone rubble kitchen-garden wall (around 18ft high) terminating in flat stone copes with entrance door way to left (lintel dated 1749); layer of turf surmounting full length of copes; arched W angle to wall. Small modern lean-to glasshouse near centre of inner wall.

SW ELEVATION: similar in height and style to NW wall with entrance doorway to left with long and short quoins and later timber boarded door.

INTERIOR: original ground plan and planting scheme now lost but now used for recreation (seating/picnic area); the display of a later 19th century pillar sundial (dial now missing) and modern sculpture and cast-iron fountain.