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Sunnyside Hospital building, no longer in use. It was built in 1855-7 by W. L. Moffat as the main hospital building for Sunnyside Hospital (NO76SW0063). An extension dated 1877 was added to the rear, by Moffat and his partner James Aitken, creating a new service range building which replaced an array of single storey buildings within the courtyard, forming a T-plan off the centre of the main wing. This was followed shortly after in 1879 by a new recreational hall, built between the main wing of the building and the Moffat and Aitkens service range. The hall, designed by Robert Rowand Anderson, was to incorporate large spaces for all patients and staff together, which was a change to the traditional style of having domestic sized communal areas shared between smaller numbers of patients. The hospital building is shown on the 1st edition OS map as being made up of two adjacent quadrangular buildings with internal courts. The court to the east has a pump. There are entrances at each end of the north wing into the courts. There is a small adjacent walled garden to the west, and two further adjacent enclosures to the east and south-east. On the 2nd edition OS map there are two additions to the rear north wing. A rectangular building has been added to the west court, and the east court has two rectangular buildings, the north-west corner has been filled and the pump removed. Current maps show there are further additions and alterations. The central wing dividing the two courts has been widened to the east and west. The walled garden to the west has been removed and replaced by a new hospital building, and the enclosures have also been removed. It is a three-storey and basement, 27-bay Jacobean building. It is symmetrical, with regular advanced bays, and is constructed from stugged, coursed rubble with raised ashlar margins and quoins. The window openings have chamfered stone mullions and transoms. There are pinnacled shaped gables with small slit openings, and small, segmental, pointed-arched window openings to the basement. The south principle elevation has an advanced central five-bay section with gabled, single-bay east and west returns. The central three bays are both advanced, with a slightly recessed central bay. Within the central bay is a wide, segmental-arched doorway with a panelled timber door and round-arched glass and timber side-lights, surmounted by a three-light window. In the gablehead above the door is a carved square dated plaque '1857'. The rear north elevation is irregular. The extension has pedimented dormerheads and Dutch-gable end bays. There is a square, carved dated plaque to the central gablehead. The end bays have tall, coped, gablehead stacks. The courtyards feature part-glazed linking corridors to single-storey, hexagonal, pyramidal-roofed buildings. There are pointed-arch window openings to the recreation hall, with hood-moulds and decorative stone rose motifs. Much of the original north wing was altered or removed when a new service range and block were added in 1877. The boiler house,a later addition on the northwest side of the building, housed the heating system for this building and others on the site, workshops for repairs, offices, staff rooms and storage areas. The building is fairly utilitarian in design, the northeast elevation with a six windows set in the upper part of the wall. The chimney, a later metal addition, sits on a brick base which could be the base of the original brick chimney. The service block on the northeast side of the original building was primarily used for laundry and maintenance. The interior of the main building is largely plain, with some moulded timber fire surrounds and simple cornicing detailing to ceilings. In a main corridor is a tablet of 1816 commemorating the first Montrose asylum. In contrast the recreation room has one of the most ornate ceilings and truss designs seen in the North East of Scotland, featuring a full height timber panelled ceiling with trussed 3-sectioned barrel vaulted timber roof and timber stage. There is a panelled timber gallery to the east end and off the main hall lies a formal dining room, accessed from the principal elevation entrance which features timber panelling and four large windows. Standing building survey was carried out in September 2018 ahead of redevelopment of the hospital site.
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NO76SW0137 - SUNNYSIDE HOSPITAL, HILLSIDE