Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

YESTER HOUSE, GARDENERS HOUSE (BAILIFFS COTTAGE), WALLED GARDEN, STALK AND HOT HOUSESLB18194

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
05/02/1971
Local Authority
East Lothian
Planning Authority
East Lothian
Parish
Yester
NGR
NT 54018 67282
Coordinates
354018, 667282

Description

Possibly originated by John Adam circa 1725, with later

additions and alterations. Sited to W of Yester House.

GARDENER'S HOUSE: circa 1750. 2-storey, 3-bay house

adjoined to N wall of walled garden; red rubble sandstone

with ashlar dressing. Slightly advanced, gabled entrance

bay to centre of N elevation, with 1st floor window and

blocked oculus in gablehead; small-pane fanlight; windows

in flanking bays at each floor. Pentice roofed, stone

garden sheds adjoined to E and W. S (garden) elevation

incorporated in wall of walled garden at ground, and with

superimposed Gothick screen at 1st floor, rising above

eaves and with cornice; 3 blind pointed-arch windows,

hoodmoulded and with dormerheads behind corniced front;

square recesses flanking windows; currently with classical

busts.

Small-pane glazing patterns in sash and case windows. End

stacks. Grey slate piend roof.

WALLED GARDEN: rubble walls, ashlar coped and brick

lined. Serpentine coping added in earlier 19th century,

to principal wall. Main gateway with corniced ashlar

piers supporting gadrooned urn finials, flanking 2-leaf,

decorative wrought-iron, Arts and Crafts gates, circa

1900, with semi-circular overthrow. Lesser pedestrian

gateway at a distance, with similarly detailed gates.

Further gateway flanking gardener's house, (possibly

moved from Yester House), narrow and with lugged and

pedimented marble surround, scrolled detail by ground;

pulvinated frieze with acanthus ornament and carved

detail in pediment; 2-leaf simple, but decorative

wrought-iron gates. Lean-to hot-houses abutting N wall.

Hot-houses: fine glasshouses to N of wall garden,

possibly including peach house, Andrew Wood, 1791, and

vineries, Andrew Sheaver, circa 1850 (Garden Inventory,

1988).

Stalk: polychrome, square-section brick stalk by hot-houses

to N of walled garden.

Statement of Special Interest

In the Yester House Estate Papers is an account for work by Andrew Hay, wright, for 'work wrought by him att the Gardiners House at the Stables at Yester Anno 1724'

The work was paid for by John Hay of Hopes in 9th November 1724 and included couples for the roof, windows, joists, lintels, fireplaces, scaffolding for the masons and slaters and the hire of two horses. Charles Emerson was the son of the gardener at the time and he went on to act as an overseer for John Adam in the building work phase on Yester House in 1750-58.

References

Bibliography

Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland (1988), pp253-259. National Library of Scotland, MS 14666 (f.68)

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