Description

Possibly 18th century origin. Large rectangular-plan walled garden with chamfered angle at S and 2-storey, rectangular-plan store at W; single storey, 6-bay, rectangular-plan, piend-roofed pair of garden cottages.

WALLED GARDEN: flat-coped walls of snecked rubble with squared long and short quoins and voussoirs. NW wall with segmental-arched carriage entrance to right of centre and pedestrian entrance at left.

STORE: 2-storey (possibly raised from single storey), single bay shed with cantilevered stone forestair. Snecked rubble at ground with large blocks of squared rubble and Aberdeen bond at 1st floor. Slated roof and deeply overhanging eaves. Gabled elevation adjoining W angle of walled garden, with door to right at ground and forestair from left leading to further door above. SW elevation with wide window, NE elevation faces garden.

COTTAGES: low rubble walls with squared long and short quoins under broad steeply pitched piended roof with centre stack. 4 windows to centre with doors to outer bays.

Statement of Interest

A-Group with Hallyburton House; Baldinny Farmhouse; Garage and Game Larders; Ha-Ha to NW and SE of House and Main Driveway; Stables and Ancillary; Sundial; West Lodge and Gate.

The walled garden and its associated buildings at Hallyburton are key elements of the estate and make a significant contribution to the surviving group of estate buildings. Typically for the period the garden is sited some distance from the house and was formerly much larger with another garden area to the NW of the cottages. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey map shows a summer house to the N end of that NW garden, and names the area as Woodside of Hallyburton. By 1894 the area is known as Hallyburton Gardens, and there is a sundial located close to the summer house. This is probably the sundial (listed separately) which is now (2010) located in the sunken garden at the SE front of Hallyburton House.

The 2-storey structure resembles a pavilion located in a corner of the walled garden at Earlshall in Fife. However, the building at Hallyburton appears to be more functional in the nature of an apple store and may have been a simple single storey store raised to provide increased storage or work space.

Hallyburton's original 1680 house was built for the Hallyburton's of nearby Pitcur. The large estate was purchased by Graham Menzies from the Marquis of Huntly in 1879 for the sum of £235,000. Graham Menzies, founder of the Distillers Company, passed the estate to his son W G Graham Menzies in 1890. Gordon W Menzies commissioned the 1903 Lorimer work, and Hallyburton remains in the same family today.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77781800

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