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Mansion house and lodge, in French Gothic style, designed by William Leiper, built c.1869. The house is two-storey, built of rubble with ashlar dressings and a steeply pitched slate roof. The facade displays an arched porch and a round corner tower. The ground floor principal rooms retain Aesthetic Movement stencilled walls and ceilings. The house was built for the mill-owning Corsar family, and was once the home of David Corsar, Provost of Arbroath who was also a well-known and successful industrialist and the benefactor who gifted the Arbroath library to the people of Aberdeen. The house is depicted on the OS 2nd edition map which shows the house with outbuildings to the north, grounds to the south and two lodges, of which only the east lodge remains. See (NO64SW0511) for the lodge description. It operated as a hotel until World War II when it was requisitioned by the War Office, becoming a children's home of the World-wide Evangelisation Crusade. The children's home closed in August 1991.
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NO64SW0280 - THE ELMS, CAIRNIE ROAD, ARBROATH