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Updated: May 26, 2021, 9:49 am
From a medieval walled garden serving Arbroath Abbey, to the first residential art school in Scotland, the site at Hospitalfield has been through many changes.
Now, in its latest incarnation, Hospitalfield House reopens with new gardens, sculpture installations throughout the site, a new glasshouse café, and the Victorian fernery fully restored.
This is the first phase in the £11m Future Plan – a five-year project to transform the house and the site.
It’s one that Hospitalfield director Lucy Byatt hopes will encourage people from Arbroath and beyond can come to enjoy the surroundings of Patrick Allan Fraser’s 19th-century Arts and Crafts masterpiece.