House of Gray - Nr Dundee - August 2011

[Mr Ex.]

History taken from the net..

The House of Gray in Dundee is an early 18th century country mansion of moderate size.
It consists principally of a main block and two pavilions linked by two square stair turrets with ogee roofs.
The house was constructed between 1714 and 1716.
The name of the architect is not known, although the design was considered sophisticated enough to be included in
William Adam's book of contemporary house designs Vitruvius Scoticus.

Apparently there were plans to convert the house into a hotel, but not sure if they ran out of money or abandoned the plans
due to the recession.
It just seems like they decided to down tools, and board the place up!

The interior was a bit dissapointing :( as it had mainly been stripped, and the copper theives had started strip the wiring in places.


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Mr Ex

[myke]

nice place found this

For sheer square foot per pound, there are few houses in Britain that can compare with the House of Gray, an early-18th-century mansion built for the 10th Lord Gray on slopes overlooking the Firth of Tay, to the west of Dundee. The 12,000 sq ft property, whose long façade and little turrets sport a fresh coat of limewash, is on the market through Savills for £800,000 (01738 445588) - a price that reflects its tortured modern history. After serving as an orphanage after the Second World War, the house was abandoned in 1953. At one time it was used as a barn for storing raspberries and strawberries. There were a couple of attempts to restore the building during the 1980s property boom, with the aid of Historic Scotland, the Scottish equivalent of English Heritage, but by 1989 the schemes had collapsed and receivers put the building up for sale at just £80,000.

It was bought by a developer, House of Gray (Dundee), which had the intention of turning it into an upmarket hotel. "The day we completed, thieves were stealing the last of the lead from the roof," says Conrad Aldridge, of the company. Having already burned its fingers on a couple of collapsed restoration schemes, Historic Scotland was at first reluctant to advance further money to rescue the building. But 16 years and a £1·2 million grant later, the exterior of the building has been restored to pristine condition. Peer through the windows, however, and it is another story: the interior is a mass of pipes, wires, half-finished partition walls and piles of MDF panelling.

After winning planning permission to turn the house into a 14-bedroom hotel and build a large function room on the rear, Aldridge says his company cannot raise the £800,000 to £1 million needed to complete the work.

full article here if you can take anymore http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3342598/A-bull-market-in-Angus.html