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Former hospital and associated buildings, now in residential use, and site of lodge. The site is now known as Auchterhouse or Auchterhouse Park. The hospital was built in 1901-2, and the lodge in 1902 to the same style. The hospital was designed by William Alexander of Dundee. Robert Laing was the masonry contractor and D. P. How and Son were the joiners. A total of £25,000 was gifted by Provost Moncur towards the building cost. It was officially opened on 26 September 1902, and, until 1904, was named The Dundee Sanatorium. A pavilion was opened on 28 March 1906, and a separate female pavilion paid for by Miss Symers was built in 1907. The hospital is first shown on the revised 2nd edition OS map (1921), named Sidlaw Sanatorium. A long main bock linked by what appears to be a covered walkway to a further block to the northwest. There are additional buildings to the north and east, a cross shaped building and sewage tanks in the far southwest of the site. The lodge was sited to the south east. Only the main block and remains of the tanks are shown on current maps. The main building is two-storey and attic, with 19 bays. The rear projections are also two-storey, but are slightly lower. It is harled, with ashlar dressings and a slate roof with pieced terracotta ridge tiles and that have finials at the gables, and there are corniced wallhead. The gables themselves are all half-timbered and have plain bargeboards. There is a base course, and a cill and lintel course at the first floor. The south elevation is symmetrical, with an advanced central three bays and end bays. Mid-way between the advanced bays on either side of the entrance there is a corbelled advanced first floor window. The first floor windows that are not advanced have a balustraded balcony, with wrought-iron balusters. The advanced bays and first floor windows are gabled, with bracketed half-timbered gables that contain an attic window. Between these are alternating piended and gabled attic dormer windows. The central entrance is within an arched doorpiece with a monogrammed keystone at the centre. Above the doorway is a recessed first floor window with a balustraded balcony in the same style as the other first floor windows. The bays flanking the entrance on either side have canted windows to the first and second floors, with bipartite attic windows within the gables. The advanced end bays are built in a similar style, but with a single window within the gable. The east gable has two windows to the ground and first floors, with four arrow slit attic windows between the timbers of the gable. The west gable is the same as the east. The north elevation is also 19-bay and symmetrical. There is a single-storey entrance porch projecting at the centre, flanked by two-storey and attic blind gables. On either side of this central projecting section there are three bays to the main elevation. There are then two-bay projecting gables at either side. There are then three more bays to the main elevation before projecting stair gables at the extreme ends of the elevation, which are slightly shorter than the other projecting gables. Inside, the hospital has been mostly reconstructed to be converted into flats. The original main staircase however remains, with wrought-iron balusters. The lodge to the south east was extensively fire damaged in 2019 and demolished. It had been built in the same style as the hospital, and was designed and built by the same architect and contractors. It was a single-storey T-plan gabled lodge, harled, with margined angles, doors and gables. The gables were half-timbered, in the same style as the hospital building, and there were cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers. Adjacent to the site of the former lodge there are a pair of square-section, pyramidal-capped cast-iron gatepiers. When the hospital was built, two cists were uncovered and two standing-stones were moved (NO33NW0007, NO33NW0008).
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NO33NW0032 - SIDLAW HOSPITAL