Temple Knowe Garden House
Date 25 May 2009
Event ID 912301
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/912301
Hexagonal single-storey building, dressed ashlar to front with droved ashlar flanks and rubble north face. Arched door to south with voussoirs and thin belt at eaves. Former door to north west with external stair (removed mid 20th century) and window to south east long since blocked. Later wooded flattish roof with asbestos covering. Stone-paved floor and wooden seating on 5 sides (partly removed).
Approached up steps from north terrace with bee-boles Garden house known as the Temple Garden enclosed by rubble walls about 10ft minimum height, east and west walls dating from 1761-66, north end rebuilt mid 20th century using original stones. (Historic Scotland)
