Building record MAB39466 - FASQUE HOUSE WALLED GARDEN

Walled garden and Apple House, probably 1792 by John Paterson, situated to the south of Fasque House (NO67NW0016).

Walled garden and Apple House, probably 1792 by John Paterson, situated to the south of Fasque House (NO67NW0016). It was described in the early 19th century as having five hot-houses for pineapples, grapes, peaches'. The garden, divided into two roughly square areas, was built in three stages, the bowed north elevation and towers possibly added in the mid 19th century. A standing buildings appraisal was carried out by AOC Archaeology in 2010, and standing building recording was undertaken by AOC in 2016. The southeast garden wall has a square-plan castellated entrance at centre comprising round-arched doorways and blind pointed arch opening to each return. The walls are of home-made brick, roughly 3-4 course thick in an English Garden bond, flat-coped, stepped and fluted at the north. Built into the centre of the cross-wall of the garden is an unusual survival of rare 2-storey, pyramid roofed apple house with flanking polygonal 3-stage towers. It is of squared and snecked rubble with some Aberdeen bond and patches of cherry caulking, roughly squared dressings and voussoirs. The apple house has decoratively-astragalled round and pointed arch windows, and blind quatrefoils to towers. There is a pedestrian opening immediately west of the apple house. Some repairs to the apple house were carried out in 2007. The 2nd edition OS map shows a centrally placed pond in each of the two gardens, that to the south retaining iron railings. At the north end of the north garden the 1st and 2nd edition maps show a range of glasshouses, now ruinous. At the northwest end of the garden is a brick lean-to with slate roof supported by plain cast-iron columns: the rear of the lean-to houses an original or early boiler system for the heating of the greenhouses. The entrance to the garden on this side is through a timber panelled door with a large pronounced and dressed surround. Attached to the southwest side of the gardens is a single-storey, L-plan house, The Garden House (NO67NW0047), with its north elevations forming the garden wall. Outside and adjacent to the northwest corner of the garden is The Garden Bothy (NO67NW0048), depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps as roofless, but roofed on the 1927 map.

Period Notes
Probably 1792, with mid-19th century additions.

AOC ARCHAEOLOGY, 2010, FASQUE ESTATE ABERDEENSHIRE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL DESK BASED ASSESSMENT AND STANDING BUILDING APPRAISAL (Bibliographic reference). SAB3558.

AOC ARCHAEOLOGY, 2016, FASQUE ESTATE, ABERDEENSHIRE: HISTORIC BUILDING RECORDING (ESTATE BUILDINGS) WRITTEN SCHEME OF INVESTIGATION, WSI (Bibliographic reference). SAB7882.

AOC ARCHAEOLOGY, 2016, FASQUE HOUSE AND FASQUE HOUSE ESTATE BUILDINGS: HISTORIC BUILDING RECORDING REPORT, SBS (Bibliographic reference). SAB6543.

Record last edited

Feb 3 2023 1:50PM