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View of wall and garden house from W Digital image of C/60404

SC 774328

Description View of wall and garden house from W Digital image of C/60404

Date 30/11/1994

Catalogue Number SC 774328

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 60404

Scope and Content Wall and garden house, Gardens and Sundial, Grounds, Keithick House, Perth & Kinross, from west This shows the 19th-century garden house with the walled garden on the other side of the wall. The two-storeyed, three-bayed building has a piended (hipped) roof and a gablet over the first-floor lattice window. Two entrance doors flank the lattice window on the ground floor and the door at first-floor level enables materials to be easily loaded onto carts. Single-storeyed buildings originally flanked the garden house and the remains of these blocks are shown, with the line of the sloping roof visible on the end wall of the garden house. This building would originally have been used to store implements and materials used in the gardens. The garden house would have been heated by a fire in a grate on the rear wall which would also have heated the greenhouses at the other side of the wall. This would help fruit to grow and ripen in the greenhouses. The Victorian kitchen gardener provided the family, guests and servants with a large quantity of quality fruit and vegetables all year round without the help of modern fertilisers and equipment. Keithick House was designed by David Whyte and built for W E Collinswood between 1818 and 1823. David Bryce (1803-76) changed the porch and offices in 1839, and Maclaren, Soutar & Salmond made further alterations in 1926. Morant painted an Adam Revival decorative scheme in the drawing room. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/774328

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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