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Fruit Shed, Walled Gardens, Raehills House

A Category B Listed Building in Annandale North, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.23 / 55°13'47"N

Longitude: -3.4679 / 3°28'4"W

OS Eastings: 306737

OS Northings: 593845

OS Grid: NY067938

Mapcode National: GBR 477Z.00

Mapcode Global: WH5VT.PTT0

Plus Code: 9C7R6GHJ+XR

Entry Name: Fruit Shed, Walled Gardens, Raehills House

Listing Name: Raehills, Walled Garden, Gardener's House, Outbuildings and Sheds

Listing Date: 3 August 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342215

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9883

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200342215

Location: Johnstone

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Annandale North

Parish: Johnstone

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

Tagged with: Outbuilding

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Description

Perhaps by William Burn, circa 1834. Now a symmetrical

arrangement of 2 walled gardens (that to N late 19th/early

20th century) with central courtyard, latter bisected by high

linking wall, with basket archway, which abuts front wall of

single storey cottage at N and corresponding long range of

lean-to potting sheds opposite. Outer (W) court entrance

flanked by hoodmoulded and round-headed garden gateways and by ornamental circular "sentinel boxes"; conical-roofed and

circular possible fruit store at SE angle of inner court.

Main elevations of principal buildings red ashlar, remainder

mostly rubble-built; slate roofs.

COTTAGE: 3 bays, piended inner porch to court, in re-entrant

angle of dividing wall, is supported on single Doric column;

sash windows with vertical glazing pattern; end stacks; low

flanking wings, that to W concealed and treated as part of

walled garden, but with dummy slits; E wing has adjoining

recessed long range of sheds.

GARDEN WALLS: enclosures each with curved end walls furthest

from court; enclosure to S has high rubble-built walls, that

to N mostly brick walls with plain iron railings;

ashlar-walled smaller enclosure at S. nearest house.

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