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House, stables and garden depicted on the OS 2nd edition map, and all designed by James Maclaren 1866. The stables to the northwest of the house, comprises a quadrangular range, abutted on the west side by the walled garden which has greenhouses set against the inner side of the north wall. The house is now part of Ashludie Hospital, the stables converted to residential use and the walled garden has been built over by residential properties. The Jacobean style former mansion house was built 1866 for Alexander Graham who owned a flax spinning mill in Arbroath. Following his death (1911) the house was purchased in 1913 by the Dundee Corporation and converted into a sanitorium opened in 1916 (NO43SE0105) and extended to north and east in 1928.The house is 2-storey of 7 bays on a rectangular plan. There is a 3-storey extension to the north, a single storey extension to the west, advanced corner bays and lower 2-storey service wings to the rear. It is built of regular coursed and stugged masonry, with polished ashlar dressings, a slate roof and regular fenestration with 2- and 4-pane sash windows throughout. The interior has some fine cornice and ceiling plasterwork in the hall and principal rooms with AG initials, and some original marble chimneypieces. Also an imperial staircase with fine strapwork balustrade and statuettes, and Venetian window with patterned and coloured glass. Much of the original interior and exterior decoration survives. Particular features include the Dutch gables, pierced balconies and prominent entrance porch. The stables are on a quadrangular plan, one and two storey, built of squared and random rubble with a slate roof. It has a 2-storey entrance with segmented pend and shaped gable above, skew gables with stacks, and flanking single storey base returning to form north and south wings. The west wing is much altered and extended. The walled garden had a flued brick wall with stone coping to north, east and west and an extensive lean-to and gabled cast-iron and timber frame conservatory at the north. A cast-iron Doric column on a stone plinth was axially positioned opposite at the south. In the 1940s Ashludie was used as a military hospital and emergency wards were built for wounded servicemen and air raid casualties. A building survey of Ashludie House was carried out by AOC in 2015 prior to redevelopment. Although the later wings were generally modernised, the main house retains some of the original splendour of a mid-Victorian Country House including the highly decorated ceilings to the original ground floor reception rooms and finely carved timber staircase.
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NO43SE0104 - ASHLUDIE