The Elms (Angus)

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The Elms in September 2018.

The Elms is a villa in the Scottish town of Arbroath in the Council Area Angus . In 1971 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A. The associated East Lodge is independently protected as a Category B structure.

history

The villa was built around 1869. The builder was the Corsar family , who ran an industrial mill. The Scottish architect William Leiper is responsible for the design . The Elms was later operated as a hotel. At the beginning of the Second World War , the War Office secured the villa. Then the World Evangelization Crusade ran a children's home there. In August 1991 the facility closed and The Elms was sold. The plan to divide it into several residential units was not implemented in the following decades. In 2001 the vacant structure was entered on the Register of Endangered Listed Structures in Scotland. In 2016, his condition was classified as bad and at the same time high risk.

description

The Elms is on Cairnie Road ( A933 ) in the western part of Arbroath. The masonry of the two-story villa is made of quarry stone , but is clad with stone blocks. The neo-Gothic villa is designed in the French Gothic style. The protruding entrance area is designed with pointed arches . A rounded corner tower emerges at one edge of the building. The steep roofs are covered with slate.

The East Lodge is on Cairnie Road and marks the entrance to The Elms. The one-story building was built when the villa was being built. Like the villa, its masonry is made of quarry stone. The roof of the neo-Gothic lodge is covered with slate.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ Entry on buildingsatrisk.org.uk
  4. ↑ Entry on The Elms  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 56 ° 33 '58.9 "  N , 2 ° 36' 0.9"  W.