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Cottage hospital, still in use as a hospital, first opened in November 1889. It was designed by local architect Robert Duncan, and built at a cost of £1257. It was named in honour of Queen Victoria's Jubilee. On 5 October 1916 the hospital, with the exception of the fever hospital was handed over to the Red Cross for the treatment of soldiers. It ceased to be a Red Cross Hospital in January 1919. An isolation unit for TB patients with a South-facing verandah was built to the South in 1925, and was later converted into a maternity unit in 1944. An isolation pavilion was added in 1927 and a day block added to the main hospital block in 1938. In 1965, the hospital was upgraded and a health centre added. A plaque was unveiled in 1994 to mark the completion of a £2.4 million upgrading. The 1st edition OS map (1871) shows the original hospital to have been built on the site of a gravel pit. On the 2nd edition OS map (1901), the main wing has been built, and is shown as an E-plan building oriented roughly North/South, with wings projecting from the ends. A smaller rectangular building is shown to the West. On the 1924 revised 2nd edition OS map, this smaller rectangular building has been incorporated into the main wing via a new wing projecting from the centre of the West elevation. There are two new buildings shown, one to the North-West within its own enclosure, and a new wing to the South-West. Aside from the building shown to the North-West, which appears to have been removed, the rest of the buildings shown on the revised 2nd edition map remain at the core of the hospital, however there have been more recent major additions and extensions that cover parts of it and make some of the original features difficult to define. The former isolation unit remains as a T-plan wing at the Southern extent of the hospital complex, and retains its glazed South-facing verandah. From what can be seen of the original buildings, they appear to be single-storey rubble-built buildings with gabled slate roofs and metal apex finials. The E-plan is still evident, and on the East elevation the central wing projects and is larger, rising to two storeys. At the centre of the ground floor, between the two ground floor windows, is a hood-moulded stone scroll framed by pilasters. The flanking two wings are also gabled, but not rising to two-storeys. Within the gable are narrow round-arched openings, the Eastern one of which is blocked. The hospital is now known as the Jubilee Hospital and Huntly Health Centre.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)