Ardrossan, 86 Eglinton Road, Seafield House

NS24SW 83.00 22881 43463

NS24SW 83.01 NS 22810 43490 Stables

Gatepiers, Railings and Piers are listed separately

NMRS REFERENCE:

Seafield House is situated within its own grounds between Eglinton Road and the Ardrossan to Largs Branch Railway. Now bounded on the E and W by Seafield Court and Witches Linn respectively.

First house was built in 1820 and then substantially rebuilt to the Scottish Baronial style in1858 (Thomas Gildard) with a tower added at the rear in 1881. The building is painted stugged ashlar.

The house is now in use as Seafield Residential School (1997).

Seafield is depicted as roofed First Edition of the OS 25-inch map (Ayrshire, 1856, sheet16.1), which shows a building with two wings and a formal walled garden to the N. By the date of the 2nd edition (ibid), the house has been extended with the walled garden now having glasshouses on the N wall. The stables are also shown to the W.

The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey describes the house as 'A superior dwelling house with gardens and plantations adjoining, the property of John Bartlemore Esq.'.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

OS Name Book 1855.

Scottish Baronial. 2 storeys, 5 bays to south front. Painted stugged ashlar. Central bay with crowstepped gable, 2 flanking bays with decorative wall head gables. Advanced western bay with crowstepped gable and 2-storey 5-light canted bay. Eastern bay in shallow projection with corbelled turret in re-entrant angle; crowstepped gable. 4-storey entrance turret in western re-entrant angle with roll-moulded dressings to door, string courses, narrow windows, boldly carved arms, crests and devices; nailhead decoration in frieze; cornice, conical roof with banded patterns in the slate; tall weather vane. West elevation: 3 asymmetrical bays, the northern advanced and corbelled above ground storey; crowstepped. Tall French mansard tower with iron balcony. Slate roof. Stairhall of 1858. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)