Venlaw Bank

Visibility: Upstanding structure, which may not be intact.

Information from Scottish Borders Council.

Remnants of a brick and stone walled garden associated with the mid 19th century villa of Venlaw Bank.

28/1/10 - the recent heavy snow combined with traffic on the road immediately north of the walled garden collapsed much of the rear wall. The sequence of construction was evident. An earlier stone wall was truncated at some point towards the end of the 19th century or early 20th century and a double-skinned red-brick wall with an internal flue space as built on top. The wall was tied with vertical rows of bricks at 90 degrees to the outer skins. These tie bricks were also inserted into the earlier stone wall thereby pinning the two phases of wall together. The inner space would have been used to heat the outer skin for the purposes of heating an orchard within the walled garden. A few fruit trees remain to the south of the wall. The heat would have been fed by a boiler, and a boiler house may have been located in the north-east corner of the garden. A later shed was built to the north and east of Orchard House in the centre of the north wall and this contains medieval carved stones (see separate entry). The wall was later used to retain built up material (approx. 3m high) to support a road upgrade in the 20th century. The weight of this material is what has caused the wall to collapse.Information from Scottish Borders Council