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Latitude: 57.4638 / 57°27'49"N
Longitude: -4.2749 / 4°16'29"W
OS Eastings: 263635
OS Northings: 843785
OS Grid: NH636437
Mapcode National: GBR H8TZ.VZQ
Mapcode Global: WH3FB.9NKK
Plus Code: 9C9QFP7G+G2
Entry Name: Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum, Leachkin Road, Inverness
Listing Name: Craig Dunain Hospital
Listing Date: 17 April 1986
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 340080
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB8037
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Inverness, Leachkin Road, Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum
ID on this website: 200340080
Location: Inverness and Bona
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Inverness West
Parish: Inverness And Bona
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Dated 1864, with further extensions and additions including staff accommodation wings (1901). Long 2- and 3-storey range on sloping SE facing site, 45 bays with advanced gabled wings both front and rear. Rubble with tooled and polished ashlar Tarradale sandstone dressings.
Centre door in SE front in slightly advanced and gabled centre bay under stepped hoodmould enclosing datestone with tall pointed-headed window with cusped tracery above.
Similar detailing in flanking 1st floor fenestration (2 windows each side). Centre bays linked to advanced gabled bays (2 storey canted bays on gables) by bold square towers with pyramidal roofs capped by brattished platforms and forming shallow U-plan forecourt.
To E and W of central range symmetrical ward blocks 5-1-7-1, the single bays projecting and gabled with 3-light, 3-storey projecting windows on inner bay, 2-windows on outer, tall pyramidal roofed towers attached to latter.
Additional 2-and 1-storey ranges with variety of bay windows and square
and circular turrets. Mainly 2- and 12-pane glazing; ridge and end stacks; slate roofs. Gabled wings project at rear. Main admission
entrance now at rear in circa 1901 addition.
Established in 1864 to accommodate 250-300 psychiatric patients. Now much enlarged. Listing includes main block only. Various free standing additions and later buildings not included.
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