Coach House, Seaton House is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 2004.
Coach House, Seaton House
- WRENN ID
- long-corridor-sable
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 2004
- OS grid reference
- NO 658 426
- Coordinates
- 56.57491, -2.55823
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The stables at Seaton House were built in 1855 and feature a rectangular-plan, symmetrical single-storey main block that includes an adjoining coach house and an enclosed forecourt. The design incorporates Tudor detailing, highlighted by a square louvred slated ventilation fleche with bell cast eaves at the center of the roof. The principal elevations are constructed of coursed ashlar, while the remainder is made of squared snecked rubble with some pinnings, and droved ashlar quoins. A string course and coped parapet run along the eaves, and the windows are predominantly blocked with hoodmoulds.
On the southwest elevation, the main block has a five-bay layout with a slightly advanced central bay featuring a segmentally-arched pend opening that is now infilled with out-of-character glazing. The outer right bay contains a shouldered doorway with a modern timber door and a recessed date panel inscribed '1855' above it. The outer left bay has a former window opening that is now a doorway obscured by a modern brick linking section, and reticulated ironwork adorns the windows.
The northeast elevation has a segmentally-arched pend opening at the center, which is now blocked, along with a dormer-headed opening that breaks the parapet above. There is a wallhead stack to the left. The southeast elevation features a single bay with a bipartite window, while the northwest elevation is blank, with a screen wall and timber door linking to the coach house on the right.
Inside, the rear wall has four recessed oval hay rack niches. The coach house, located to the southwest of the main block, has a three-bay principal elevation with three shouldered coach openings, two of which are blocked by brick on the left and center. The right bay is obscured by an advanced brick section linking to the main block. There is a single blocked window on the rear elevation, and the side elevations are blind.
The forecourt is enclosed by a wall and railings that create a quadrant in front of the main block. The wall is high random rubble from the side elevation of the coach house to the southeast corner of the quadrant, while the remainder is lower, made of coursed tooled squared sandstone topped with cast iron axe-head railings and tapered stone piers. A cast iron gate is located at the southeast corner of the wall.
Local climate
Coach House, Seaton House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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