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Latitude: 55.9527 / 55°57'9"N
Longitude: -2.6378 / 2°38'16"W
OS Eastings: 360271
OS Northings: 673483
OS Grid: NT602734
Mapcode National: GBR 2Y.XTKX
Mapcode Global: WH8W4.GM4X
Plus Code: 9C7VX936+3V
Entry Name: Walled Garden And Gifford Gates, Whittingehame House
Listing Name: Whittingehame Walled Garden, Summer Pavilion and Gifford Gates with Quadrant Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 27 November 1990
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351444
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17503
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Whittingehame House, Walled Garden And Gifford Gates
ID on this website: 200351444
Location: Whittingehame
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton
Parish: Whittingehame
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SUMMER PAVILION: Dated 1905. Red sandstone ashlar,
temple-fronted pavilion with squared, coursed rear, sited
at NE corner of walled garden. Distyle in antis S front
with piers and exuberant cartouche in pediment. Leaded roof.
GIFFORD GATES: on E wall of garden. Dated 1914. 2-leaf
gates with flanking panels and ornate overthrow.
Wrought-iron with many scroll details, and bell-bugle and
foliage to overthrow. Railings above quadrants with
variant of Vitruvian scroll at top.
QUADRANT WALLS AND GATEPIERS: to Gifford Gates; red brick
quadrant walls with deep ashlar base course and coping;
channelled ashlar gatepiers with moulded coping.
Gates possibly wrought by Thomas Hadden, the leading
Edinburgh smith at this date. Named the Gifford Gates as the
resulting commission was financed by A J Balfour's reward
for giving the Gifford lectures in Edinburgh, probably in
1914.
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