Walled Garden, Townend Cottage, 70 Main Street, Symington

The Walled Garden at Townend Cottage, located at 70 Main Street in Symington, dates from the late 18th to early 19th century, likely incorporating some mid-18th century materials, with later additions. The villa is a three-bay, two-storey structure with an attic, featuring a semi-elliptical entrance porch with two curved panelled doors. There are later single-storey wings on both the left and right sides, which were raised to two storeys on the left and added as a conservatory on the right in 1963. The building has two canted dormers and a central bipartite box dormer. Architectural details include a base course, band course, eaves course, quoins, tabbed window surrounds, and cornices on the ground floor, topped with a centrally-raised parapet. The walls are made of coursed whinstone with grey polished ashlar dressings.

On the northwest (rear) elevation, there are some later additions. The original timber sash and case windows feature 12-pane and 15-pane designs on the ground floor. The roof is covered with grey slates, has straight skews, and tall corniced ashlar end stacks with distinctive moulded clay cans. The property also has cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the villa features a classical design with two notable chimneypieces, one reputedly designed by Adam and sourced from Charlotte Square. There are dining room niches, cornicing, and a cantilevered stone staircase with a cast-iron balustrade and mahogany handrail.

The Walled Garden itself is a rectangular structure located at the rear of the house, built from random whinstone rubble with sandstone quoins and margins around the openings, and includes some lean-tos along the edges. An inscribed lintel reads '17 RB 43'.

The gatepiers and gates consist of distinctive panelled ashlar carriage entrance gatepiers, with two large and two small piers, all painted and topped with pointed pyramidal caps and conical cartstones at the base. The gates are made of cast iron, featuring two-leaf and two single gates with lower fretwork panels and vertical spearheads above.