Ayr, Doonfoot Road, Seafield
Hospital (20th Century), Villa (19th Century)
Site Name Ayr, Doonfoot Road, Seafield
Classification Hospital (20th Century), Villa (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ayrshire And Arran Health Board; Former Seafield Hospital; Seafield Hospital For Sick Children
Canmore ID 120298
Site Number NS32SW 143
NGR NS 33060 20332
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/120298
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Ayr
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
Seafield was recorded by RCAHMS Threatened Buidings Survey in April 2014 prior to the proposed demolition. Only the exterior was recorded because foollowing a fire in 2008 the building was deemed by the owners to be too unstable to allow access.
Clarke & Bell, designed the building with Robert A Bryden, 1888-90 for Sir William Arroll. The interior and exterior of the house were recorded by Harry Bedford Lemere soon after the house was completed in 1890.
STG 2014
NO32SW 143.00 33060 20332
This late Victorian former private house was converted to hospital use in the first quarter of the 20th century. The building is no longer a hospital. Its current condition is unknown.
Information from RCAHMS (MMD), 21 May 2008.
4-bay Italianate former hospital, with 4-storey tower and 3-storey wing to N. Coursed sandstone ashlar polished to margins. V-jointed base course with channelled rustication to principal elevation, base course and V-jointed channelled rustication to ground floor of remaining elevations; architraved openings, corniced with consoles to ground floor of principal elevation; dividing band courses; eaves course; strip quoins; overhanging eaves on timber modillions.
Built for the engineer Sir William Arrol (hence the tooled panel reading "WA"), replacing an earlier house. Seafield House was bought by the Ayrshire Health Authority in 1921 for use as a maternity and child welfare hospital. It was converted to a paediatric unit in 1944, and remained in use as such until 1991 when it became the Health Board's HQ (Historic Scotland)
Go to BARR website 
Desk Based Assessment (15 February 2012)
A desk based assessment of this building was made by RCAHMS Threatened Building Survey following a consent/planning application for demolition works at the site being submitted to the planning local authority.
A request for RCAHMS to carry out a statutory survey of the site was made via online planning portal/letter.
Planning Application ref – 11/01590/LBC