Ladysbridge Hospital, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 May 1990. Hospital.
Ladysbridge Hospital, Banff
- WRENN ID
- lost-storey-evening
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1990
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Ladysbridge Hospital, Banff, AB45 2LE
- OS grid reference
- NJ 649 638
- Coordinates
- 57.66276, -2.58869
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ladysbridge Hospital in Banff, designed by Alexander Reid of A and W Reid, was built between 1864 and 1865, with the date of 1864 marked on the building. It is a long structure, primarily two stories high, facing south and consisting of 21 gabled bays. The exterior is made of dark Rhynie stone, accented with contrasting tooled sandstone ashlar dressings.
The central part of the building is an advanced gabled range that features three bays and stands over a raised basement. This section is illuminated by three large windows on each floor, which have transoms and mullions. The wallhead is coped, and the outer bays have gablets with blind slits, while the center includes a datestone.
On either side of the central range, there are long two-story wings, each with two advanced gabled sections. These wings have ground floor windows and segmental-headed tripartite windows on the first floor, with multi-pane glazing throughout, some of which include horizontal panes. The building has tall coped ridge and end stacks, and at the eastern and western ends, there are ridge crossings that once supported a spire, now demolished. The roofs are covered with slate.
Local climate
Ladysbridge Hospital, Banff sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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