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House, now used as offices, designed by A .and W. Reid in 1866 with later extensive alterations and additions. Large house 2 storeys and attic house with raised basement, and three bays to south (front) elevation. The house is constructed in ashlar masonry with ornate polished ashlar dressings and coursed rubble to raised basement. There is an advanced central bay with further advanced porch flanked by canted bay windows. Enriched segmental-headed pediments to first floor windows and pierced stone balustrades carrying ornate urns to all bay windows and to the centre bay. There are two batteries of octagonal chimney stacks, symmetrically arranged with seven to each group. Piended slate roof. Extensive modern additions to rear. The garden is enclosed by rubble built walls with dressed stone copes. There is a single span elliptical arched footbridge to the west with pierced cast-stone balustrade and panelled end piers with stone finials. The house is thought to have been used as a hospital during the First World War. After the Second World War it was converted into a small maternity hospital which closed in the 1980s. The building continues to be used as offices for the Health Board.
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NJ26SW0366 - MARYHILL HOUSE, HIGH STREET, ELGIN