Marchmont House, Walled Garden With Glasshouses And Sunken Garden

To the south-east of Marchmont House, there is a large walled garden with associated glasshouses and potting sheds. The gardens and buildings probably date from the nineteenth century, and several original features survive.

The 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, dating from the late nineteenth century, illustrates the layout of the garden, then divided into eight square sections. Little of that design survives, other than the box-hedges which still line the central path. The enclosing walls of the large, rectangular garden are built of rubble, partially lined with red brick. A smaller, irregularly shaped garden lies immediately to the west.

Outside the garden, there is a large glasshouse, also dating from the nineteenth century. It contains original work-benches and decorative iron floor grilles above the heated pipes. Potting sheds, built of rubble and red brick, are built against the garden walls.

Above the north-east doorway into the garden, there is a panel bearing the date 1712. This is said to have come from the old courthouse of Greenlaw, which was demolished in 1830.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

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Visible on Ordnance Survey large scale vertical air photographs (OS 70/365/153-5).