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Main Block, Woodilee Hospital

A Category B Listed Building in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9275 / 55°55'38"N

Longitude: -4.1332 / 4°7'59"W

OS Eastings: 266811

OS Northings: 672545

OS Grid: NS668725

Mapcode National: GBR 14.ZFG5

Mapcode Global: WH4Q2.H80R

Plus Code: 9C7QWVG8+XP

Entry Name: Main Block, Woodilee Hospital

Listing Name: Lenzie, Woodilee Hospital Main Block with Towers

Listing Date: 29 April 1986

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 346066

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13075

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Woodilee Hospital, Main Block

ID on this website: 200346066

Location: Kirkintilloch

County: East Dunbartonshire

Electoral Ward: Lenzie and Kirkintilloch South

Parish: Kirkintilloch

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

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Description

James Salmon and Son, Salmon Son and Ritchie, W Forrest Salmon. Jacobean. Mainly symmetrical. Wings and linking buildings James Salmon and Son 1871-75, tall 2-storey central block and towers W F Salmon 1890-94. 2 and 3-storeys. Long linear plan with 2 -storey spinal corridor and 2 2-bay transverse wings breaking forward 3 bays to S. Snecked rubble, ashlar dressings, ground floor cil band, cornice. 1,2 and 3-light casement windows, stone mullions and transomes, 9 and 6-pane sashes; plate glass in central block. Shaped gables to transverse wings, pointed with apex pediments, finials and oculi to N front, segmentally shaped to garden front. Blocking course, raised to parapet at wings, axial stacks, slate roofs.

CENTRAL BLOCK: N (main entrance) front, 7 unequal bays arranged 1-2-1-1-1-2-1, outer bays canted and advanced, central bays advanced, projecting entrance bay. Coupled column Roman Ionic portico with balustrade over. Clock tower over entrance, square with corner finials, timber louvres. Parapet, balustraded in centre, segmental pediments flanking. 2 larger towers, 3-stages above roof line to rear with tall, mullioned and transomed windows at lower stages, open colonnaded cupolas with bell-cast roofs, colonnaded finials, wallhead stacks breaking through balustrade with segmental pediments and corner finials. 2-storey rear building with halls on each floor, canted windows to rear elevation, piended roof with corner tourelles at sky line, somple linking parapet.

INTERIOR: central block; cast-iron columned ground floor hall. Hall to 1st floor with fluted Corinthian pilasters; corniced, compartmented, carved timber ceiling. Corniced, pedimented doorpieces. Arched landings to right and left.

Statement of Interest

Former Barony Lunatic Asylum.

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