Dunkeld House Gardens (Mr Fleming) Dunkeld and Dowally, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Dunkeld House Gardens (Mr Fleming) has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 337089 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 5606
- Canmore ID
- 151006
- Category
- B
- Name
- Dunkeld House Gardens (mr Fleming)
- Parish
- Dunkeld and Dowally
- County
- Perth and Kinross
- Easting
- 302310
- Northing
- 743098
- Date Listed
- 5 October 1971
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
18th century brick-walled garden with 19th century additions. Gazebo with tetrastyle, white painted, Roman-doric portico with pediment and urns in centre of curved north wall (architect perhaps C. Steuart in around 1777). Large zinc vases.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Plans for some garden buildings by G. Steuart at Blair, Stanley or Shiochie's Hill nearby was scarped in 1727 as a large formal ablong mount and has an icehouse (inaccessible in 1963). Blair Castle has an unsigned plan (probably dating to around 1740) of a two-storey garden building, latterly a house called the Brick Building (demolished in 1899). The garden but not the portico was noted by R Pococke in Tours in Scotland 1760 (published 1887). Italian Romanesque marble fountain (described in previous listed building record written in 1971) no longer in situ (2021). Statutory address, and listed building record revised in 2021. Previously listed as 'Dunkeld House Gardens (Mr Fleming)'.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Pococke, R. (1887) Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760. p.266.
