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People associated with this site

Nurseryman: James Backhouse (3) (born 08/07/1794 died 1869)

Sculptor: Richard Reginald Goulden (born 1876 died 1932)

Architect: Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer (born 04/11/1864 died 13/09/1929)

Advisor: Thomas Hayton Mawson (born 05/05/1861 died 14/11/1933)

Designer: Robert Robinson (born 1734 died 1794)

Designer: James Whitton (born 1851 )

Features

fountain

Feature created: 1908

Designation status: Historic Scotland Listed Building Designation Grade B Designation Reference The Ambition fountain

statue

Designation status: Historic Scotland Listed Building Designation Grade B Designation Reference The Andrew Carnegie statue

kitchen garden

dovecote

entrance

Feature created: 1929

The Louise Carnegie Gates were refurbished in 2000.

ornamental pond

Lily pond.

conservatory

Feature created: 1973

A conservatory built on the site of the early-20th-century glasshouses.

pavilion

The Glen pavilion.