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Latitude: 57.521 / 57°31'15"N
Longitude: -2.0305 / 2°1'49"W
OS Eastings: 398270
OS Northings: 847867
OS Grid: NJ982478
Mapcode National: GBR P8BV.BFP
Mapcode Global: WH9P0.S785
Plus Code: 9C9VGXC9+9Q
Entry Name: Walled Garden, Aden Country Park
Listing Name: Aden Country Park, Walled Garden Including Bothy, Potting Shed and Head Gardener's House
Listing Date: 4 July 2007
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 399546
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB50906
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200399546
Location: Old Deer
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Central Buchan
Parish: Old Deer
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure Walled garden
Dated 1766 but probably rebuilt earlier to mid 19th century. Fine rectangular-plan walled garden sited at heart of Aden estate close to semicircular steading. Incorporating piend-roofed bothy, potting shed and gardener's cottage. Random rubble with squared quoins, irregular rubble coping, and segmental-headed openings. Carved stone raised above coping at N with '17 M F WATT 66'.
BOTHY: single storey and attic, 3-bay, piend-roofed, rectangular-plan bothy to NW angle of garden. Boarded timber door to centre with windows in flanking bays, high wallhead above. Small traditional rooflight in slated roof, lying 8-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows and wallhead stack to W. Timber-lined interior with narrow winding timber staircase and open fire.
POTTING SHED: long low rubble lean-to potting shed adjoining outer elevation of N garden wall and adjoining bothy at W.
HEAD GARDENER'S HOUSE: single storey, 3-bay, gabled house at NW angle of garden wall.
B Group with Aberdeenshire Farming Museum Formerly Aden House Stables, Aden House, Icehouse and Former Laundry. The walled garden at Aden is an important survival. Strategically placed to the east of the separately listed semicircular steading, it may incorporate fabric from a 1766 garden as indicated by the probably re-used datestone. The walled garden was an integral element in the largely self sufficient existence at large, well run estates during the 18th and 19th centuries. Vital for the production of fresh fruit and vegetables, walled gardens often had hot houses producing exotic fruits including grapes and peaches as well as the Anana, or pine apple. From the 1750s to 1937 the Aden estate was built up by the Russell family to a 4,000 hectare mix of private policies, farmland and woodland. Groome notes that 'The woods and plantations of Aden, Pitfour and Kinmundy cover a large extent, the first two comprising some very fine hard-wood trees'. Aden Estate and the ruinous Aden House now form the Aberdeenshire Council owned Aden Country Park.
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