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Latitude: 55.9209 / 55°55'15"N
Longitude: -4.4788 / 4°28'43"W
OS Eastings: 245198
OS Northings: 672531
OS Grid: NS451725
Mapcode National: GBR 0Q.ZV3S
Mapcode Global: WH3NS.5FHT
Plus Code: 9C7QWGCC+9F
Entry Name: Erskine House
Listing Name: Bishopton, Mar Hall Drive, Mar Hall Hotel (Former Portion of Erskine Hospital, Formerly Erskine House)
Listing Date: 10 June 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 343447
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10909
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: The Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers at Erskine House
Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers
Mar Hall Hotel
Mar Hall
Erskine Hospital
ID on this website: 200343447
Location: Erskine
County: Renfrewshire
Electoral Ward: Bishopton, Bridge of Weir and Langbank
Parish: Erskine
Traditional County: Renfrewshire
Tagged with: House Hospital Hotel Gothic architecture
1826-28, Sir Robert Smirke. Large neo-Tudor 2-storey and basement mansion, ashlar with ogee-capped octagonal angle buttresses and arcaded parapets, low-pitched slated roofs with shafted chimneys. Entrance front on
east with full basement, asymmetrical with boldly projecting arched and vaulted porte-cochere of giant proportions, Jacobean shaped gables at southern section of facade. SE service wing 2-storey with lower storey linking to basement level, forming L-plan forecourt. N and S elevations elongated U-plan; N elevation 11 bays set on elevated terrace of cusped arcading, central 3 3-storey with projecting porch, broad end bays with 5 light canted bay, projecting ends 2 broad bays. 2 and 3 light mullioned and transomed windows. Interior work of major importance, high rising entrance hall of Fonthill type, rib-vaulted hall corridor, richly detailed principal apartments, notably fan-vaulted drawing room, original chimneypieces and light fittings of very high quality. First floor largely altered.
Category changed November 1988.
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