Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

KINNEIL, KINNEIL HOUSE, WALLED GARDENLB50492

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Group Category Details
100000019 - See Notes
Date Added
23/03/2006
Supplementary Information Updated
11/05/2020
Local Authority
Falkirk
Planning Authority
Falkirk
Burgh
Bo'Ness
NGR
NS 98293 80506
Coordinates
298293, 680506

Description

Late 16th/ 17th century large (approximately 100m x 100m) square plan walled garden. High rubble walls with steeply pitched stone coping. Entrance in east side with two further openings in south side. That to left with later slightly advanced rubble piers, and that to right is pedestrian chamfered entrance with long and short dressings, now blocked.

The walls in the northwest corner have some worked stonework, including larger, roughly squared blocks (some with chamfered edges) indicating former lintels or jambs for openings. There is a short section of wall projecting north from the corner to a square-plan pier.

Statement of Special Interest

Part of an A-group with Kinneil House, 2 and 4,5, 6-8 Duchess Anne Cottages, Kinneil House bridge.

Kinneil Walled Garden is an important survival for its relatively early date and for its completeness. Its functional relationship and historical association with Kinneil House are also of special interest. As an important and once-vital part of the Kinneil Estate, the walled garden would have supplied vegetables, fruit and flowers. Part of the garden to the northeast now forms the gardens for Nos 6-8 Duchess Anne Cottages (see separate listings).

The worked stone in the northwest corner has likely come from an earlier (pre-16th century) structure, but its provenance is presently unknown. An archaeological report written after excavation work in 2018 states that the northwest corner of the walled garden, including a short section of wall projecting north from the corner to a square-plan pier, predates the late 16th / 17th century walled garden. The report suggests that this may be the remains of the 15th century stronghold of the Hamilton family known as 'Craig Lyon'.

Kenneil Walled Garden is located within the Antonine Wall World Heritage Site Buffer Zone.

Walled gardens are important yet common surviving ancillaries of high-status country houses or smaller houses within substantial landholdings. Surviving examples range in date from the 16th to the 20th centuries, with the majority dating to the 18th and 19th centuries. The walled kitchen garden was particularly important in Scotland where a harsh climate and unfavourable growing conditions prevailed.

Listed building record revised in 2020.

References

Bibliography

Canmore: http://canmore.org.uk/ CANMORE ID 120696

Maps

Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1854, published 1856) Linlithgow Sheet I.10 (Borrowstouness). 25 inches to one mile. 1st Edition. Southampton: Ordnance Survey.

Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1895, published 1897) Linlithgowshire 001.10 (includes: Bo'Ness and Carriden). 25 inches to one mile. 2nd Edition. Southampton: Ordnance Survey.

Online Sources

Bailey, G.B. Kinneil Park at https://kinneil.org/2018/08/07/estatehistory/ (accessed 23/04/2020)

Other Sources

Bailey, G.B (2018) Excavations at Kinneil Estate.

About Listed Buildings

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