Description

Mid/late 18th century. Exceptionally large quadrangular

walled garden (? formerly orchard) enclosure with twin-gabled

2-storey house at north east corner, long row of 5 north-

facing single storey lean-to cottages adjoining high north

wall of garden (some with openings into garden) attics in

continuous lean-to roof. All rubble built, house and cottages whitewashed (garden range of house pebble-dashed); house

(altered and re-windowed) has 4-bay north elevation with

advanced wide inner gable, stacks in roof valley; cottages

have battered north wall, boarded doors, small-paned glazing.

Roofs all slated. Garden walls have red ashlar coping; east

wall sweeps down and turns inward centrally; west side of

garden, beside river Nith, largely unwalled.

Statement of Interest

Cottages no longer occupied (1984). Blackwood estate garden

complex continued on west bank of Nith, in Keir Parish.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17791715

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)