Former Cottage Hospital, Whitchburn Road, Campbeltown

John James Burnet, 1894-6, with later wing by H E Clifford. Single storey and attic, 7-bay symmetrical former hospital with Arts and Crafts influence. Roughcast walls with droved ashlar dressings. Raised ashlar margins with projecting window cills, cast-iron ventilators set in ashlar blocks.

S (WITCHBURN ROAD) ELEVATION: modern flat-roofed porch obscuring entrance door at centre bay. Cavetto-moulded lintel course over flanking bays interlocking with canted windows in 2nd and 6th bays. Tall windows in gables breaking eaves at outer bays. Battered buttresses at corners to outer left and right.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: 2-bay gable ends, door at left bay of W gable.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey wing projecting at right angles from centre, 3-bay range intersecting at right angles with 3-bay upper floor elevation only exposed to N.

Glazing and doors currently obscured by boarding (1995), but appear to be modern aluminium units. Grey slate pitched roofs, overhanging eaves with timber boarded soffits and barge boards. Lead covered timber dormers over each bay at S pitch with curved roofs. Smaller dormer at centre with shallow curved roof. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes, those fronting buttresses with decorative hoppers. Roughcast stacks with profiled copes, single-flue at gables, 3-flue ridge stacks flanking centre 3 bays. 3-flue ridge stack to rear projection, single-flue at gables of single storey addition.

STEPS AND WALLS: ashlar steps opposite entrance, leading to lower drive. Symmetrically displaced lower flights from central platform with plain ashlar posts at corners, wrought-iron handrails with twisted and splayed newels at bottom step. Random rubble retaining wall with ashlar cope to E of steps, curving to S with drive. Random rubble boundary walls to E and W.