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Walled Garden, Currie House

A Category B Listed Building in Borthwick, Midlothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8268 / 55°49'36"N

Longitude: -3.0055 / 3°0'19"W

OS Eastings: 337106

OS Northings: 659746

OS Grid: NT371597

Mapcode National: GBR 71G2.32

Mapcode Global: WH7VD.TS0Y

Plus Code: 9C7RRXGV+PR

Entry Name: Walled Garden, Currie House

Listing Name: Currie House, Walled Garden Including Sundial

Listing Date: 30 September 1991

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 337926

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6364

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Currie House, Walled Garden

ID on this website: 200337926

Location: Borthwick

County: Midlothian

Electoral Ward: Midlothian South

Parish: Borthwick

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Walled garden

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Description

Late 18th century. Near quadrangular plan walled garden. Random rubble walls; polished dressings droved to margins; rubble coping. Evidence of heightening, especially to NW. Low entrance to N with long and short red sandstone dressings; boarded timber door; secondary entrance to SE with boarded timber door. Lean to building incorporated into NW wall with replacement corrugated iron roof and doors; stone skews. Wall extends to Currie Bridge at S corner (see separate listing). SW wall obscured by trees (1997) possibly not intact.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997, overgrown. Waisted sundial to centre; gnomon missing.

Statement of Interest

The sundial appears on the 1st edition OS Map (1852). Now part of Borthwick Castle estate.

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