Description

W Ross Young 1912. Single storey, symmetrical cottage hospital. U-plan with projecting rear bays and linked at centre rear to extensions. Harled with red ashlar base course and cills.

S ELEVATION: central arched entrance; red ashlar band course at impost level, cornice and coping to gently arched blocking course, inscribed circular panel. Flanking bipartites and 4-light canted windows in gabled bays; latter with applied timber framing; finials. Bipartites to outer bays. Angle loggias with timber balustrades and decoration.

SIDE ELEVATIONS: repeat details of S (front) elevation.

Small-pane upper sashes, plate glass lowers. Eaves cornice. Swept eaves. Green slates. Harled Voyseyesque corniced ridge stacks.

Statement of Interest

Modern hospital interior but tiled vestibule retained. Founded by Francis and Elizabeth Edington as Convalescent Home. Cottage style, recalls works of M H Baillie Scott, and was appropriate among imported villa styles of North Berwick. Modern buildings at N not included.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17791274

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair