Gate Piers And Quadrants, East And West Lodges, South Approach, Woodend General Hospital, Aberdeen

The gate piers and quadrants, along with the east and west lodges, are located at the south approach of Woodend General Hospital in Aberdeen. Designed by Brown and Watt around 1905, these structures are in the Scottish 17th century style and were part of the original Oldmill Poor House complex that opened in 1907, situated at the southern end of the viaduct.

The lodges are constructed from grey granite with ashlar dressings. They feature a cill course at the ground level, corniced windows, and moulded cills on the first floor. Stone mullions are present, and the eaves are deep and overhanging.

On the Queen's Road elevations, each lodge has a two-storey gabled bay flanking the drive, with tripartite corniced windows on each floor and a small light in the gablehead with a segmental lintel. The outer bays are single storey, featuring either single or bipartite windows, with a further recessed single bay at the extreme outer bay.

The drive elevations are three-bay, each with a central door and a small bipartite window under the eaves above. The flanking bays contain bipartite windows, and semicircular gabled stone dormers break the eaves above.

Behind each lodge are the probationery wards, which are long, rectangular-plan single-storey gabled blocks with basement areas formed on falling ground. The gables face the drive and feature keystoned Venetian windows, with additional windows on the side elevations. The windows are timber small-pane sash and case. The roofs are covered in grey slate, and broad tall stacks with red clay cans are located on the rear walls of the two-storey lodge blocks, with gableheads on the companion blocks at the rear.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997.

The gate piers and quadrants consist of granite ashlar piers at the corners of the lodges facing the drive, which have scrolled caps. These break to low ashlar coped quadrant walls that run at the level of the ground floor cills.