Visited last night with delongid95.
I'd had a brief recce of the place in the rain a while ago, then telesto had a look round more the other week, so I thought we'd best have a better look too. Whilst the place is in the same condition, we managed to find out a fair bit more about the recent history of the place. Sorry if I've dragged this out but this place has a lot of history...
Flashearth - link
The place was an old isolation hospital for patients with diphtheria, scarlet fever, meningitis etc. (source) but other than this information not much else can be found online relating to its history as a hospital. The outer buildings are much older than the central one and I think only these will have been used for the 'residents'. There are rooms with bright colours now faded, scrawled on, that is if the plaster is even still on the walls.
As the dates are so vague on this its not known when the place became used as a hotel, whether all the buildings were there at first or whether the hotel part was added later. It certainly seems newer but it may simply have been the only building not left to rot (until now). Anyway, at some point probably in the 70's the building was being used as a hotel called Corsbie Hall Hotel. Some paperwork was found and flight tickets from July 1977 back this up to an extent.
Then in the 80's the place was called Fosterton Firs and was some sort of care home or nursing home. It seems to have been a rather ambitious description though (see pic below). There are still very out of date listings for it online but no other info. It appears that Fosterton Firs went out of business in the late 80's/early 90's despite their best efforts (including keeping horses and breeding greyhounds).
We didn't find much out about its use in the 90's. This was perhaps its last main incarnation as Strathore Lodge Hotel and no doubt there is the paperwork somewhere to tell us more but we didn't come across it this time. Maybe another daytime trip is in order!
Lastly the place was used by Strathore Plant Hire Ltd. I suppose they still own the place but it's no longer used by them. Lots of old lorry bits around, haulage magazines and stuff. The company is still active according to Companies House and filed accounts to 31/5/06 and posted through the letterbox was a request for someone to appear in court as a witness dated March 07 to appear in May 07 so maybe we just missed them.
Cheers to Delongid95 for coming out at short notice and turned out to be the ideal person to go with too with top knowledge of the hospitality and haulage businesses! Not to mention the person with the common sense to take a torch that doesn't suck batteries in 10 minutes flat. Note to self: Don't leave important things in the car.
Some Pics:
Outside
Inside old buildings
View attachment 55194
Hotel
There must be some beer left in these pipes somewhere...
Papers etc.
I'd had a brief recce of the place in the rain a while ago, then telesto had a look round more the other week, so I thought we'd best have a better look too. Whilst the place is in the same condition, we managed to find out a fair bit more about the recent history of the place. Sorry if I've dragged this out but this place has a lot of history...
Flashearth - link
The place was an old isolation hospital for patients with diphtheria, scarlet fever, meningitis etc. (source) but other than this information not much else can be found online relating to its history as a hospital. The outer buildings are much older than the central one and I think only these will have been used for the 'residents'. There are rooms with bright colours now faded, scrawled on, that is if the plaster is even still on the walls.
As the dates are so vague on this its not known when the place became used as a hotel, whether all the buildings were there at first or whether the hotel part was added later. It certainly seems newer but it may simply have been the only building not left to rot (until now). Anyway, at some point probably in the 70's the building was being used as a hotel called Corsbie Hall Hotel. Some paperwork was found and flight tickets from July 1977 back this up to an extent.
Then in the 80's the place was called Fosterton Firs and was some sort of care home or nursing home. It seems to have been a rather ambitious description though (see pic below). There are still very out of date listings for it online but no other info. It appears that Fosterton Firs went out of business in the late 80's/early 90's despite their best efforts (including keeping horses and breeding greyhounds).
We didn't find much out about its use in the 90's. This was perhaps its last main incarnation as Strathore Lodge Hotel and no doubt there is the paperwork somewhere to tell us more but we didn't come across it this time. Maybe another daytime trip is in order!
Lastly the place was used by Strathore Plant Hire Ltd. I suppose they still own the place but it's no longer used by them. Lots of old lorry bits around, haulage magazines and stuff. The company is still active according to Companies House and filed accounts to 31/5/06 and posted through the letterbox was a request for someone to appear in court as a witness dated March 07 to appear in May 07 so maybe we just missed them.
Cheers to Delongid95 for coming out at short notice and turned out to be the ideal person to go with too with top knowledge of the hospitality and haulage businesses! Not to mention the person with the common sense to take a torch that doesn't suck batteries in 10 minutes flat. Note to self: Don't leave important things in the car.
Some Pics:
Outside
Inside old buildings
View attachment 55194
Hotel
There must be some beer left in these pipes somewhere...
Papers etc.
