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Walled Garden And Gifford Gates, Whittingehame House

A Category B Listed Building in Whittingehame, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9527 / 55°57'9"N

Longitude: -2.6378 / 2°38'16"W

OS Eastings: 360271

OS Northings: 673483

OS Grid: NT602734

Mapcode National: GBR 2Y.XTKX

Mapcode Global: WH8W4.GM4X

Plus Code: 9C7VX936+3V

Entry Name: Walled Garden And Gifford Gates, Whittingehame House

Listing Name: Whittingehame Walled Garden, Summer Pavilion and Gifford Gates with Quadrant Walls and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 27 November 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 351444

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17503

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200351444

Location: Whittingehame

County: East Lothian

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Parish: Whittingehame

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

SUMMER PAVILION: Dated 1905. Red sandstone ashlar,
temple-fronted pavilion with squared, coursed rear, sited
at NE corner of walled garden. Distyle in antis S front
with piers and exuberant cartouche in pediment. Leaded roof.
GIFFORD GATES: on E wall of garden. Dated 1914. 2-leaf
gates with flanking panels and ornate overthrow.
Wrought-iron with many scroll details, and bell-bugle and
foliage to overthrow. Railings above quadrants with
variant of Vitruvian scroll at top.
QUADRANT WALLS AND GATEPIERS: to Gifford Gates; red brick
quadrant walls with deep ashlar base course and coping;
channelled ashlar gatepiers with moulded coping.

Statement of Interest

Gates possibly wrought by Thomas Hadden, the leading

Edinburgh smith at this date. Named the Gifford Gates as the

resulting commission was financed by A J Balfour's reward

for giving the Gifford lectures in Edinburgh, probably in

1914.

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