Carnegie House, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose

William Kelly, 1895-9. 2-storey and attic, 13-bay, largely symmetrical, Jacobean, gabled, former hospital building on raised site within the Sunnyside hospital complex. Snecked rubble with ashlar margins. Base course, some overhanging eaves; finials to gableheads. Advanced and recessed bays. Bi- and tripartite window openings to S elevation with chamfered stone mullions and transoms. Flat-roofed roof dormers.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced central gabled bay with moulded segmental-arched doorway with decorative carvings to spandrels; lintel on small engaged columns raised on corbels on doorcase: pediment above with central carved panel. Flanking bipartite window openings. Large, 18-light windows above; small oriel window above. Flanking recessed bays with gabled 2-light wallhead dormers with carved circular decoration. Advanced outer bays with parapetted, canted 7-light windows to ground.

Variety of glazing patterns to windows. Some timber casement with small pane glazing above; others timber sash and case. Others boarded. Grey slates; raised skews. Tall, coped gable and ridge stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR (seen 2012). Original room layout largely extant with some fine internal decorative features, including timber panelled former dining room with painted ceiling with Zodiac representations (See notes). Entrance hall with decoratively carved timber fire surrounds. Other panelled timber rooms. Fluted columns decoration to staircase. Panelled timber doors with decorative corbelled cornices. Some painted glass.