Architecture Notes

Event ID 850311

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Seaforth House, part of the fire damaged Seaforth Hotel is a two storey building with Dutch gables of c.1830. Later extension to NW in same style, but slightly higher and larger building and two storey 20th century extensions to NE and S. Set within the remains of a walled garden with two brick and stone lectern style garden sheds surviving.

The original house and extension with the rest of the hotel have been badly damaged by a fire in 2006 and is now reduced to a roofless shell.

The original Seaforth House is shown on Wood's Town Plan of 1822 and depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1:500 scale plan of 1858 (OS 1:500 plan, Forfarshire, 1858, sheet xlvi 15.17). By the date of the second edition of the 25-inch map (Forfarshire, 1903, sheet 15), several additional buildings including glasshouses had been constructed within the walled garden. Elements of the walled garden survive including a bricked up arched entranceway in the wall at the SW corner and triangular coping stone on the south wall. The south wall separated the garden from a railway, annotated as 'Old Railway' on the early OS maps.

The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey describes the house as 'A fine house situated on the Dundee Road about a mile from Arbroath it is at present under Trustees' (Name Book 29 September1859).

Visited by RCAHMS (DE), 31 August 2006

The fire damaged hotel has now been demolished.

Visted by RCAHMS (GL), November 2006