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Walled Garden, Candacraig House

A Category B Listed Building in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.187 / 57°11'13"N

Longitude: -3.093 / 3°5'34"W

OS Eastings: 334033

OS Northings: 811212

OS Grid: NJ340112

Mapcode National: GBR WC.1CFC

Mapcode Global: WH6LN.GMC8

Plus Code: 9C9R5WP4+QQ

Entry Name: Walled Garden, Candacraig House

Listing Name: Candacraig House Policies, Walled Garden Including Old Engine House (Summer House) Gatepiers and Gates

Listing Date: 16 April 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 349882

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16166

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Candacraig House, Walled Garden

ID on this website: 200349882

Location: Strathdon

County: Aberdeenshire

Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside

Parish: Strathdon

Traditional County: Aberdeenshire

Tagged with: Walled garden

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Description

Probably 18th century origin, various later additions including 19th century summer house. Good early walled garden, partly crowstepped, retaining fine gates (see Notes) and well-detailed Gothick summer house. Sited to NE of house on ground falling to SE. Approximately rectangular-plan garden with V-plan S end and dividing wall running E-W, N end sub-divided with path running N-S. Coped, snecked rubble walls.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: square-plan, coped ashlar pond with centre pier to N garden.

ENGINE HOUSE (SUMMER HOUSE): slated rubble, single storey over raised basement, single bay, former summer house to W boundary of S garden, incorporating bowed projection to W (outside garden wall), decoratively-astragalled pointed arch windows and ashlar ridge stack.

INTERIOR: moulded cornices to coomed ceiling and horseshoe grate in timber fire surround.

GATEPIERS AND GATES: reduced square-section ashlar gatepiers with moulded cornices and large ball finials. 2-leaf decorative ironwork gates. Further gates to dividing wall, 2-leaf ironwork with elaborate detail of intertwined vine leaves and grapes (see Notes).

Statement of Interest

A good sized early walled garden retaining unbreached enclosing walls with some very fine ironwork gates. These gates were removed from the bombed house in Park Lane, London owned by the grandfather of the last generation of Wallaces at Candacraig, probably during the 1950s. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey map shows enough detail to hint at formal walks and planting particularly in the rectangular north garden. An early print (possibly 18th century) of Candacraig House set within a picturesque landscape shows a high wall set back to the northeast, possibly the current walled garden. The former summer house was equipped with an electricity generator during the early years of the twentieth century. It was subsequently used for wedding ceremonies with the walled garden run as a nursery garden. The whole has since been reinstated as part of the formal house policies.

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