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Site of an infectious diseases hospital, now occupied by a community hospital built in 1998. It was designed by Brown and Watt, architects, and was formally opened in August 1903, although patients had been admitted a fortnight earlier. It was originally built as a joint hospital by seven of the nine local authorities, and at this time was known as the Kincardinshire Join Isolation Hospital. The remaining two local authorities joined in 1917. It became an NHS hospital in 1948, and in 1952 was renamed Arduthie Hospital. It then briefly closed in 1958, but re-opened in 1961, with a formal re-opening on 20 March 1962, having been converted into a maternity unit, GP medical and long-stay beds. It then finally closed in 1996, and was subsequently demolished. In 1998, the current community hospital was built on the site. The 2nd edition revised OS map (1923) shows the hospital as a group of seven buildings and a tank. The central two-storey administration block had a domestic appearance, with a round-arched doorway and mullioned windows, deep eaves and broad chimney stacks. A corrugated-iron sanatorium block was later used as a store, and is recorded as still being on site in 1988.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)