St Raphael's Hospital, 6 Blackford Avenue, Edinburgh

David MacGibbon and Ross, circa 1878. 2-storey, irregular-plan Baronial villa, converted for use as hospital by addition of Art Deco W wing (J Douglas Miller, 1934); now in use as residential nursing home. Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing string course; eaves cornice; long and short quoins; chamfered reveals.

S ENTRANCE elevation: 3-bay, with service wings recessed to E and W. Corniced doorpiece in central bay; architraved and shouldered doorway; 2-leaf panelled door; plate glass fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Advanced gabled bay to outer right; advanced tripartite window at ground; advanced bipartite window with canopy at 1st floor; bipartite window in gablehead; stone finial. Canted window in bay to outer left, corbelled out at 1st floor and corbelled to square at gablehead; trefoil-headed window set in gablehead; stone finial.

E ELEVATION: single window at 1st floor flanking 3-storey circular-section tower; fishscale slates to conical roof; iron weathervane finial. SERVICE WINGS AND CHAPEL: single storey pitched roof service wing to W; single storey and attic link from main house to single storey, pitched roof, T-plan service wing to E; laundry converted to chapel (A Murray Hardie,1919, enlarged by W J Devlin,1928). Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks; polygonal stack adjoining tower; some original rainwater goods, including moulded eaves guttering and hoppers. 1934 wing: 2-storey, butterfly-plan with central round-arched entrance block and flat roof. GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: 2 capped ashlar gatepiers with chamfered angles at corner of Blackford Avenue and South Oswald Road; high coped boundary walls to streets; pedestrian gateways through slapping to Blackford Avenue and Oswald Road.