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Walled garden, probably of 18th century origin with various later additions including a 19th century summer house, and is set to the north-east of Candacraig House (NJ31SW0006). 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. It is an approximately rectangular-plan garden with a V-plan south end, a dividing wall running east to west and the north end sub-divided with path running north to south. The partially crowstepped walls are constructed from coped, snecked rubble. There are fine ironwork gates to the garden, which 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. These are supported by reduced square-section ashlar gatepiers with moulded cornices and large ball finials. There are further two-leaf ironwork gates to the dividing wall, with elaborate detail of intertwined vine leaves and grapes. To the north of the garden is a square-plan, coped ashlar pond with a centre pier. In the west boundary of the south garden is the Gothic summer house. It is a slated rubble, single storey over raised basement, single bay, former summer house incorporating a bowed projection to the west (outside the garden wall), decoratively-astragalled pointed arch windows and an ashlar ridge stack. Inside the summer house are moulded cornices to a coomed ceiling, and a horseshoe grate in a timber fire surround.
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