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Former garage, fire station (originally a stable), weighbridge dated 1922 and a dwelling house to the southwest, all part of the former Sunnyside Hospital (NO76SW0063) complex. The stable block dates from the later 19th century with an extension in the mid 20th century. The site ceased to be used as a hospital in 2012. The building is single-storey, symmetrical, 5-bay, built with pinned rubble, smooth ashlar margins, raised cills and an eaves course. There are keystoned, segmental-arched, windows and door openings (boarded) and decorative timber ridge vents. The south frontage is symmetrical with a central wide, segmental-arched, keystoned and quoined entrance doorway, metal finialled, with a flattened gable above. There are flanking, single-window piended-roof bays, finialled, gabled outer bays with small segmental-arched windows to the gableheads. The east elevation is 5-bay, asymmetrical, with a gabled, finialled bay to the far right with a large altered opening. The west elevation is asymmetrical, with a gable to the far left with a gable stack. Piended slated roofs are to the centre with gabled roofs to the end bays, with raised skews, skewputts and gable stacks. The interior (partially seen in 2012) comprises a large open space with a cobbled floor with dividing, part-glazed timber screen, sliding doors and boarded timber roof. Some openings have moulded architraves. There are further storage rooms with little decoration. The weighbridge building to the southeast has an intact metal weighbridge on the ground, inscribed '1922 to weigh 15 ton, H Pooley and Son, Ltd, Birmingham and London'. This is a good example of an early 20th century ancillary building, built to provide stabling for the wider hospital complex and used latterly as a garage, with a fire station function and integral accommodation. The building has some simple decorative detailing in the varying roof profiles and the keystoned window architraves and the retention of the part-glazed sliding timber doors to the interior that are of interest. The building forms and important part of the wider hospital site, as one of the ancillary buildings erected to enable the hospital to be as self-sufficient as possible. The hospital consisted of a group of related 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 was carried out in 2018 ahead of redevelopment of the hospital site.
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NO76SW0181 - FIRE STATION, SUNNYSIDE HOSPITAL, HILLSIDE