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Former nurses' home, then later offices, of Sunnyside Hospital (NO76SW0063), designed by John Alexander Ogg Allan and built 1931-35. The former nurses' home is situated to the south of the main building, on slightly lower ground, and is an impressive addition to the hospital site complex. The site ceased to be used as a hospital in 2012. Built in Arts and Crafts style on an H-plan, Booth House is a long, 2-storey and attic, near symmetrical building, with 3-storey gabled end wings, painted concrete harl, contrasting ashlar stone margins and a base course. There are deep eaves to the upper and lower mansard slopes, dormers abut the upper eaves. Window openings are rectangular, with some round-arched openings to the south and some bipartite and tripartite window openings. A flat-roofed extension is to the east. The south elevation has a 16-bay central section with projecting 3-storey, gabled end bays. A central, advanced, single-storey, 5-bay, flat-roofed porch has large, keystoned, round-arched window openings, stone piers and railings to the roof, which forms a balcony to the first floor with moulded architraves. The end bays have 5-light, canted bay windows to the ground floor, 4-light windows to the second and third floors and slit-window openings to the gable. The north entrance elevation is symmetrical with a central advanced 2-storey and attic bay with a wide, keystoned, moulded, round-arched entrance opening, recessed, multi-pane entrance doors, glazed fanlight and side panels. There are flanking stone panels with carriage lights. Tripartite window openings are above with single attic dormers. The west elevation is asymmetrical, 3-storey and 9-bays, with an off-centre gabled bay with canted 4-light bay window to the ground floor and prominent wallhead stacks. Predominantly multi-pane, metal casement windows with top-opening hoppers. A mansard roof is to the central section, there are ridge and wallhead stacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and raised skews to the gables.
Internally, the original layout was largely intact when the listed building was reviewed in 2012, with a full-height, panelled lobby and entrance hall, with a multi-pane glazed screen, central swing doors and some engaged polygonal-plan timber columns. Dog-leg stairs with moulded timber banisters and curved newels. Timber dado panelling to the ground floor corridor with part-glazed doors, fanlights and sidelights. The upper storeys have boarded timber doors with panels of opaque glazing. The former residential nurses' rooms have integral pointed-arched wardrobes.The finely detailed, little altered, Arts and Crafts former nurses' home forms a significant part of the Sunnyside hospital site. Sunnyside Asylum developed in the 19th century as a replacement for the first lunatic asylum in Scotland at Montrose. The former hospital consisted of a related group of buildings, informally set in a semi-parkland setting on a hillside overlooking Montrose. The site is significant in remaining largely intact and retaining the integrity of a self-contained psychiatric hospital. Standing building survey of the nurses' home was carried out in September 2018 ahead of redevelopment of the hospital site, also photographic survey of the garage to the east.
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NO76SW0177 - BOOTH HOUSE, SUNNYSIDE HOSPITAL, HILLSIDE