Old Walled Garden, The Glen

The Old Walled Garden at The Glen dates from around 1857, likely designed by landscape gardeners working under David Bryce and built by masons from the Glen Estate. It features early 19th century gatepiers. This rectangular kitchen garden has high walls with canted angles on the north wall and a formal entrance on the south side with paired gates, as well as lesser gateways on other sides. The walls are constructed of whinstone rubble with ashlar long and short quoins at the corners, and there are tall ashlar gatepiers topped with moulded flat caps. The entrance is adorned with decorative wrought-iron gates.

The principal elevation showcases a high whinstone rubble wall with flat stone copes that curve down to a lower central section, which is partially collapsing. To the right, there are a pair of tall squared ashlar gatepiers featuring strap detail just below the squared and moulded cap, flanking a pair of ornate wrought-iron gates with spear finials. The other elevations have similarly detailed walls but with simpler entrances.

Inside, the garden once had a range of glasshouses along the north wall, following the canted sides and ending in pavilion-like structures, though these glasshouses have since been removed, leaving the wall plan intact. The original planting plan has been lost, along with an internal fruit wall, and there is a central path. The garden has more recently been used for cultivating conifers, likely to supply wooded areas on the estate.