Raasay, Raasay House, Walled Garden

Walled garden, 18th century, 'well stocked with kitchen stuff, gooseberries, raspberries, currants, strawberries, apple-trees' wrote Boswell in 1773, and renowned during the Victorian era for its vineries of ripened fruit, peach and hot houses.

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

Walled kitchen garden to the immediate North of Raasay House. Rubble walls with copes stones. Polished ashlar gateposts with wrought-iron railings and gates.

The first edition OS six inch series map notes the presence of structures to the south flank of the North wall, presumably glasshouses. The second edition OS County Series map shows a run of buildings to the East flank of the East wall, potentially potting sheds.