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Latitude: 56.4818 / 56°28'54"N
Longitude: -2.8222 / 2°49'19"W
OS Eastings: 349458
OS Northings: 732495
OS Grid: NO494324
Mapcode National: GBR VP.9NF5
Mapcode Global: WH7RD.MB9S
Plus Code: 9C8VF5JH+P4
Entry Name: Seaview, Hill Street, Monifieth, Dundee
Listing Name: Hill Street, Seaview, Including Balustrade, Terrace Wall and Garden Wall with Gatepiers
Listing Date: 15 December 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 383163
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37968
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, Monifieth, Hill Street, Seaview
ID on this website: 200383163
Location: Monifieth
County: Angus
Town: Monifieth
Electoral Ward: Monifieth and Sidlaw
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Villa
James MacLaren, dated 1860. 3 W bays slightly later. 2-storey and attic, 6-bay, irregular plan large Jacobean villa. Pink coursed and snecked rubble with buff dressings; slate roof.
S ELEVATION: original 3-bay house to right; irregular, outer gables advanced, canted bay with decorative cornice at ground floor left, heraldic panel at right, central bipartite window replacing original door; string course at 1st floor, bipartites with stepped hoodmoulds and label stops at gables, single window at centre; coped skews with kneelers and gablet skewputts, shouldered stack on return wall of bay at W 2-pane sash and case glazing.
Later 3-bay addition: irregular, similar glazing, advanced W gable corresponding to original, but with attic window: 3-stage entrance tower at right, advanced porch with balustraded cornice, door with angled head and keystone, pedimented 1st floor window; small window and door with sculpted cornices at upper stage leading to balustraded balcony; pyramidal roof with weathervane finial. String course and skews similar to original house.
W ELEVATION: irregular 4-bay, with slightly advanced chimney bay, square projecting tripartite and shaped cornice to ground floor; corbelled stack with linked shafted chimneys.
E ELEVATION: gable at left with advanced corniced stack (with set-offs) and shafted chimneys. Service wing abutting with 12-pane sash and case windows, central corniced stack.
S ELEVATION: 4 irregular gable projections with 1 single storey addition, largely unaltered; gable and wallhead stacks; dormers; irregular fenestration with mixed glazing pattern.
TERRACE BALUSTRADE: cast-iron bulbous balusters with angle urns set on coursed rubble terrace wall to S.
Curtain wall to E with hand pump.
Enclosing wall to S, E and W, 5 square plan gate piers at S with vermiculated base, polished shafts and moulded caps, 3 with cast-iron ball finials.
INTERIOR: deeply moulded ceiling and cornice plasterwork in ground floor principal rooms and hall. Double columned timber chimneypiece in drawingroom at W (overmantle stored in basement); principal bedroom above with private stairs to nursery and tower smoking room. Initials J F L on cloakroom chimneypiece. Bathroom in attic with tongue and groove panelled bath with marble surround.
Built for James Fairweather Low of Monifieth Foundry.
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