Walled Garden, Kimmerghame House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. Garden.

Walled Garden, Kimmerghame House

WRENN ID
sheer-sill-spindle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 June 1971
Type
Garden
OS grid reference
NT 816 513
Coordinates
55.75484, -2.29375
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Kimmerghame House dates from the mid-19th century and is a rectangular space measuring approximately 60 by 80 meters. The walls are constructed of rubble sandstone, lined with brick and topped with ashlar coping, standing at heights of around 11 and 15 feet. The walls curve upwards at intervals to slightly higher sections, each adorned with urn finials.

There are contemporary stone mono pitch stores attached to the exterior, featuring doors and 12-pane sash and case timber windows, a corrugated asbestos roof, and stone coped skews, with a single flue visible at the wallhead. The gateways have ashlar surrounds, with one being rusticated and featuring a keystone, while the other has a heraldic panel above. The walls curve downwards and end with an ashlar pier topped with a fine stone urn, adjacent to a coped ashlar dwarf wall. Additionally, there is a cast-iron urn located near the greenhouses.

The north wall of the garden has lean-to greenhouses built against it, which have a brick and ashlar base, vertically glazed walls, and a small-pane glazed roof with pivot sections. A door is located on the side of the greenhouses. In the garden, there is also a slate sundial with a gnomon set on a stone baluster pedestal.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Kimmerghame House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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