Former Cottage Hospital, Whitchburn Road, Campbeltown

The former Cottage Hospital on Whitchburn Road in Campbeltown was designed by John James Burnet between 1894 and 1896, with a later wing added by H E Clifford. This single-storey and attic building features a symmetrical seven-bay layout and shows influences of the Arts and Crafts movement. The walls are roughcast with droved ashlar dressings, and there are raised ashlar margins with projecting window sills, as well as cast-iron ventilators set in ashlar blocks.

On the south elevation facing Whitchburn Road, there is a modern flat-roofed porch that obscures the entrance door located in the central bay. A cavetto-moulded lintel course runs over the flanking bays, which interlock with canted windows in the second and sixth bays. The outer bays feature tall windows in the gables that break the eaves, and there are battered buttresses at the corners on both the left and right sides.

The east and west elevations each have two-bay gable ends, with a door positioned in the left bay of the west gable. The north elevation, or rear, has a two-storey wing that projects at right angles from the centre, creating a three-bay range that intersects at right angles, with only the three-bay upper floor elevation exposed to the north.

Currently, the glazing and doors are obscured by boarding installed in 1995, but they appear to be modern aluminium units. The roofs are pitched with grey slate and feature overhanging eaves with timber boarded soffits and barge boards. There are lead-covered timber dormers above each bay on the south pitch, each with curved roofs, and a smaller dormer at the centre with a shallow curved roof. The building has cast-iron gutters and downpipes, with decorative hoppers on those facing the buttresses. The chimney stacks are roughcast with profiled copes, including single-flue stacks at the gables and three-flue ridge stacks flanking the centre three bays, along with a three-flue ridge stack on the rear projection and a single-flue stack at the gables of the single-storey addition.

Access to the entrance is via ashlar steps that lead down to a lower drive. The steps are symmetrically displaced from a central platform and are flanked by plain ashlar posts at the corners, with wrought-iron handrails featuring twisted and splayed newels at the bottom step. To the east of the steps, there is a random rubble retaining wall with an ashlar coping that curves to the south along the drive, and there are random rubble boundary walls to the east and west.