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Arbroath, Dundee Road, Seaforth House

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Country House (Period Unassigned), Hotel (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Arbroath, Dundee Road, Seaforth House

Classification Country House (Period Unassigned), Hotel (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Seforth Hotel

Canmore ID 282495

Site Number NO64SW 416

NGR NO 63504 40212

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/282495

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View. Showing 19th century W extension to Seaforth House from SSE.
View. Showing 19th century W extension to Seaforth House from SSE.View. From NW showing original house and 19th century extension with 20th century hotel extensions.View. From N showing 19th and 20th century extensions, NE and SW of the original house.View. Showing 19th century W extension to Seaforth House from W.Detail. Blocked doorway in S wall of walled garden from W.View. S elevation of Seaforth Hotel after fire from SE. Also visible is part of the walled garden.View. From NW showing original house and 19th century extension with 20th century hotel extensions.View. From NE showing 20th century hotel extensions.View. Buildings in the walled garden from S.View. Showing original Seaforth House with 19th century W extension from NW.Detail. Triangular coping stone on W wall of walled garden from W.View. 19th century extension to Seaforth House showing the later 20th century extension and curved entrance porch from SW

Administrative Areas

  • Council Angus
  • Parish Arbroath And St Vigeans
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Angus
  • Former County Angus

Architecture Notes

NO64SW 416 63504 40214

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

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