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Hospital, still in use, formerly the infectious diseases hospital for Peterhead. It was designed by the Burgh Surveyor T. H. Scott. It was built at a cost of £4,000, helped with a bequest of £1,500. The foundation stone was laid by Provost Leash in June 1905, and the hospital opened in 1907. A tuberculosis annex was built by Peterhead Town Council in 1920, and there were further additions in 1922. It is shown on the revised 2nd edition OS map (1924) as having a roughly square central administration block. To the East and West are rectangular wings, with single-storey additions on the North and South ends. To the North of these are four further buildings, and there is a small square outbuilding to the East. These buildings have been variously incorporated or replaced with the modern hospital buildings that now cover much of the site. The centre block is two-storeys, with a three-bay South facing frontage. It is constructed from pink Peterhead granite, and has bull-faced margins and quoins. The Western bay is projecting and gabled, with a large projecting stone-mullioned triple-light window to the ground floor, with a similar twin-light window above. Within the gable, above the first-floor window, there is a projecting stone where a datestone might well be placed, but it has been left blank. The central bay has a ground-floor hood-moulded entrance. The Eastern bay has a stone-mullioned twin-light window to the ground-floor, and a smaller similar window to the first-floor, which breaks the wallhead with a gabled dormer. A large wing has been added to the rear, taking up much of the North elevation and creating a T-plan building. It is not shown on the 1924 revised 2nd edition OS map, but is built in the same style as the rest of the block, although it is slightly plainer, and does not have bull-faced margins or quoins. Both sections have gabled slate roofs, with end stacks and decorated ridges. The remaining wing to the West is single-storey and attic, and constructed of the same Peterhead pink granite, with a bull-faced base-course and quoins. There West elevation has five bays, with a recessed central bay. There is a single-bay, low, piended-roofed narrow extension to the North end. There was originally one on the South end, but this has been replaced with the modern wing. The East elevation has mostly been covered by the modern wing, however the central bay is gabled and a datestone can still be seen within the gable. Flanking this are two small blocked gabled dormers within the roof. There is similar decoration to the ridge of the slate roof as seen on the main central block. The remaining building to the North of the central block is a rectangular building in the same style as the others, but with a gabled hip roof.
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