Woodcot Hospital, Woodcot Brae, Stonehaven

William Henderson, 1865-6; additions and alterations 1896, 1913, 1928; converted to hospital 1948; converted to residential 2000. 2-storey and attic, 19-bay, H-plan, plain classical former hospital and Poor Law Institution. Pedimented tetrastyle entrance pavilion with voussoired round-arched doorway at centre, and piended outer wings. Narrow bands of red sandstone rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: slightly advanced, 3-bay entrance pavilion at centre, comprising 4 pilasters flanking centre and outer bays, surmounted by corniced frieze and pediment with blank tympanum. Centre bay at ground with 6-panelled timber door, 2-light sidelights and semicircular plate glass fanlight; modern part-glazed panelled timber doors with plate glass fanlights in bays 5 and 15; regular fenestration to remaining bays at each floor, outer bays set-back. 4 regularly-disposed slate-hung tripartite dormer windows with pedimented centre lights (triangular to outer pair, and semicircular to inner pair) flanking broad centre pediment.

12-pane glazing pattern in replacement timber sash and case windows with secondary double glazing. Graded grey slates. Decorative ironwork finial to timber-louvered, octagonal ridge ventilator at centre with slated polygonal spirelet roof, 2 further flanking ventilators with ball finials. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers. Coped ashlar gable and ridge stacks with polygonal cans. Ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts.

LODGES: single storey and 2-storey, 3-bay former gate lodges to SE. Dressed coursed red sandstone rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings. Pedimented dormerheads and single corniced gatepier to E; centre door single storey elevation to S with further gable beyond.

GARDEN WALLS: some original, semicircular-coped random rubble walls remaining.