Description

Dated 1909, extended to sides and rear. Single storey and attic, 10-bay Domestic style hospital with crowstepped gables. Whitewashed harl with yellow sandstone ashlar doorpiece. Base course.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: roll-moulded, dated doorpiece (converted to window) with flanking narrow lights in bay to left of centre, window immediately to right and M-gable above with 2 square windows. Single window immediately to left and 2 tall lights to outer left each breaking eaves into dormerhead, 2 similar lights to right of centre flanking bipartite window and with further single outer windows. Modern door under flat-roofed extension angled to outer right.

12- and 18-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows; multi-pane glazing pattern to casement windows at former door, and top-opening glazing to M-gable. Green slates. Coped harled stacks with cans. Ashlar-coped crowstepped skews. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hopper to centre S.

INTERIOR: modern.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low saddleback-coped and stepped harled boundary walls with flat-coped square-section gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Aberfeldy's original cottage hospital, known as 'The Home', opened in 1879 in Home Street. This building was erected on a site donated by the Marquis of Breadalbane and opened on 27th October, 1910. Benefactors of the hospital included Mr & Mrs Douglas, and Mackay says it was built "under the auspices of Sir Donald Currie of Garth". By the mid 1950s the hospital was still known locally as 'The Home'. Now (2001) run by 'Tayside Primary Care NHS Trust'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77777870

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