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Remains of a formal garden area, with associated buildings, by James Playfair in 1788. It is a large rectangular walled garden, constructed from brick walls, with random rubble to the outer face of the North wall only. The walls would appear to have been raised by 1 or 2 feet. There are polished ashlar copes, angle pilasters and stacks serving wall flues. A pair of round headed entrances in the North wall are flanked by a series of lean-to bothies and former boiler houses. No corresponding glass houses now front the South aspect of the wall, but the wallhead is crowned by coped stacks, and similar dummy coped stacks form angle wallhead finials. There is a substantial gap slapped in the centre of the East wall, and a square headed pedestrian gate with ashlar jambs and double leaf doors in the West wall, serving the Garden House. The Garden House is dated 1869, and built by A. and W. Reid, Elgin. The Gardeners' Cottages are a pair of earlier-19th century, single-storey, 4-bay cottages, set at a slight angle one to another and linked by a curved South wall of a small rectangular walled garden at the rear. Each end of rear walled garden returns to finish opposite the North-East and North-West angles of the main garden, divided by a roadway. The gaps are flanked by simple square ashlar gatepiers. Each cottage was possibly originally 2 dwellings, and have been designed to front the working area with the lean-to bothies and boiler houses. The East cottage is a single-storey building, with a parallel block to the rear. It is whitewashed, with an off-centre entrance masked by a modern small flat-roofed porch. There are segmental-headed lintels to the four front windows, there are also three windows in the rear elevation that are enlarged in the outer bays. Glazing is 12-pane, and there are coped end stacks, slate roofs and stone ridges. The West cottage is as the East cottage, but without the parallel rear block. It is constructed of harl pointed rubble, with tooled rubble dressings. It again has an off-centre entrance, but without the porch. There are end stacks, a slate roof and stone ridge. The garden house is sited at the West side of the main walled garden, and with a modern East wing breaking into the walled garden. It is a 2-storey house of varying roof heights, with a modern 2-storey wing at the rear. It is harled, with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. The symmetrical 3-bay West front has a slightly advanced and gabled centre bay, with a hoodmoulded entrance with datestone above and flanking hoodmoulded windows. The datestone is carved with the Earl's coronet and S (for Seafield) with 1869 date. The North and South return gables have single ground and first floor windows. A single storey 3-bay wing at rear together with a modern 2-storey wing breaking into the walled garden, with a projecting canted window rising full-height. Mainly 12-pane glazing is used. There are shaped skewputts, fleurs-de-lis stone finials, slate roofs and stone ridges. The walled gardens are no longer cultivated. There is a second garden to the West (NJ56NW0068) that is depicted on the 1846 1st edition OS map, but not on the 2nd edition one.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
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NJ56NW0067 - CULLEN HOUSE GARDENS