Survey Data
Reg No
13303007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Walled garden
In Use As
Walled garden
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
209730, 280189
Date Recorded
08/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Walled garden/rose garden on sub-rectangular plan, erected/laid out c. 1820. Surrounded by rubble limestone boundary walls with a number loophole openings (having cut stone surrounds) to the western elevation. Main entrance gates to the east (see 13303006). Pair of roughly dressed limestone piers with wrought-iron double leaf gates gives access to the west. Blocked segmental-headed carriage arch to west elevation. Located to the west/southwest of Castle Forbes (13303001) and to the north west of Newtown-Forbes.
Appraisal
This walled garden/rose garden is an integral element of the Castle Forbes complex. Although probably originally laid out as a rose garden/pleasure garden, it provides an interesting historical and social insight into the extensive resources required to run a large country demesne during the nineteenth century. Offsetting the formal quality of the rose garden, the boundary walls exhibit a traditional construction in unrefined local rubble stone.