Aberdeen, Seaton House
House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Aberdeen, Seaton House
Classification House (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Middleton House; Seaton Park
Canmore ID 77000
Site Number NJ90NW 265
NGR NJ 9392 0918
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/77000
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90NW 265.00 9392 0918
NJ90NW 265.01 NJ 94321 09062 Lodge
For Seaton Park (formerly policies of Seaton House), see NJ90NW 407.00.
For walled garden (NJ 9413 0931), see NJ90NW 407.02.
(Location cited as NJ 9393 0919). House, destroyed by fire in 1963. The remaining stable block and kitchen gardens (NJ90NW 407.02) are still imposing in their architecture and layout.
The mansion-house itself stood nearer the river and was built with hand-made bricks from the Seaton brickfield. It was designed by James Gibbs in 1725 and was a fine example of a Georgian mansion of the Classic Renaissance style.
NMRS, MS/712/83.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Aberdeen, Seaton House.
Earliest example of brickwork in Aberdeen. (Nineteeth Century).
This Category A Listed building was burnt in 1963 and no trace of it remains on current maps. Information from Demolitions catalogue held in RCAHMS library.
