Orangery And Shelter, Terrace Walls, Including Fountain, Fountain Court, Culzean Castle Estate

Robert Adam, 1785, incorporating earlier structures; Wardrop & Reid, 1877. Semi-circular garden court beneath S side of the Castle. Terrace walls to N side, and bounded by Viaduct (see separate listing) to E side, Orangery to NW. Ornamental fountain in central position.

FOUNTAIN: Austin & Sealy (fountain) and Smith & Co. (base), 1877. Metal sculptoral group in Baroque style, with topmost water spout formed from a conch shell held aloft by Triton, supported on a pedestal of inverted dolphins spouting from nostrils. Group mounted on pink granite plinth within scalloped basin standing within a stone-lined cruciform pool.

TERRACE WALLS: Robert Adam, 1778, incorporating earlier structures and later remodelled castellated classical walls. Pair of parallel E-W walls, retaining two terrace levels, each terminated at both ends by square crenellated towers containing staircases descending to S. Crenellated walls with triangular coping. Square towers with battered bases, machicolated and crenellated parapets and open round-headed window and door apertures. Scale and platt staircases with solid balustrades, terminated by square besed newel posts with ball finials. Terrace walls in brick, extended in rubble and coped with ashlar. Towers of ashlar with painted timber gates. Ashlar balustrades. S Wall: low rubble retaining wall to S of court (remains of old garden wall).

ORANGERY: William Reid, circa 1837. Single storey, 7-bay, rectangular-plan, castellated classical glasshouse, in horticultural use. Polished ashlar. South facing, with N side attached to brick wall of former walled garden. Full-height windows. Machicolated cornice and crenellated parapet. Pilasters clasping corners. Entrance to E flanked by pair of windows. Timber sash and case windows, with lying panes, and half glazed timber door. Metal and timber-framed triple-pitched glazed roof supported on slender iron columns. INTERIOR (seen 2010): dwarf walls to N an S enclosing raised beds. Low blind arcading to N. Floored with red ceramic tiles.

SHELTER: 19th century. Flat-roofed timber shelter in classical style, set against viaduct. Open-fronted to W. Roof supported on 2 fluted timber columns standing on stone bases. Timber shingle side walls above lower courses of ashlar. Timber boarded roof on timber rafters.