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Latitude: 56.4819 / 56°28'54"N
Longitude: -3.0451 / 3°2'42"W
OS Eastings: 335729
OS Northings: 732691
OS Grid: NO357326
Mapcode National: GBR Z1F.W6
Mapcode Global: WH7R9.6B6Q
Plus Code: 9C8RFXJ3+QX
Entry Name: Glasshouses, Camperdown Zoo, Dundee
Listing Name: Camperdown Country Park Wildlife Park, Former Walled Kitchen_garden and Buildings Adjoining North Wall
Listing Date: 12 March 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361262
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25102
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200361262
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Strathmartine
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Greenhouse
John Hay 1807. Large rectangular walled garden with rubble-built external walls and ashlar copes. Cavity brick-built internal face. Large segmental arched openings.
N ELEVATION:"Pineapple House": projecting ashlar pavilion with arched openings, impost-level band course and main cornice, slate roof and pineapple finial. Lean-to worksheds with large gable openings, that to W somewhat altered, that to E 10-bay (6 windows and 4 doors) adjoining modern 2-storey house.
Gardeners house at NE angle 2-storey with overhanging eaves, brick-built gable to garden with ashlar dressings, cornices and vertically channelled stacks. Windows sash and case.
Internal arrangement of terracing and comparments removed to form zoo. Unusual form of cast-iron framed greenhouses, replaced by standard aluminium circa 1980.
There was originally a complex watering system, compartments enclosed by high brick walls and a raised walk ending in 2 brick pillars, built with gaps in the brickwork.
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