Woodcot Hospital, Woodcot Brae, Stonehaven

Woodcot Hospital, located on Woodcot Brae in Stonehaven, was designed by William Henderson and built between 1865 and 1866, with additions and alterations made in 1896, 1913, and 1928. It was converted into a hospital in 1948 and later transformed into residential use in 2000. The building is a two-storey and attic, 19-bay structure in an H-plan, showcasing a plain classical style typical of former hospitals and Poor Law Institutions.

The principal elevation features a slightly advanced, three-bay entrance pavilion at the center. This pavilion includes four pilasters flanking the central and outer bays, topped with a corniced frieze and a pediment that has a blank tympanum. The central bay at ground level contains a six-panelled timber door, flanked by two-light sidelights and a semicircular plate glass fanlight. Modern part-glazed panelled timber doors with plate glass fanlights are located in bays five and fifteen. The remaining bays have regular fenestration on each floor, with the outer bays set back. There are four slate-hung tripartite dormer windows, regularly spaced, featuring pedimented center lights—triangular for the outer pair and semicircular for the inner pair—flanking a broad central pediment.

The windows are replacement timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern and secondary double glazing. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there is a decorative ironwork finial on a timber-louvered, octagonal ridge ventilator at the center, which has a slated polygonal spirelet roof. Two additional flanking ventilators have ball finials. The building also features cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers, coped ashlar gable and ridge stacks with polygonal cans, and ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts.

To the southeast, there are single-storey and two-storey, three-bay former gate lodges constructed from dressed coursed red sandstone rubble, accented with contrasting ashlar dressings. These lodges have pedimented dormerheads and a single corniced gatepier to the east, with a center door on the single-storey elevation to the south, and a further gable beyond.

Some original garden walls remain, featuring semicircular-coped random rubble construction.