St Raphael's Hospital, 6 Blackford Avenue, Edinburgh

St Raphael's Hospital, located at 6 Blackford Avenue in Edinburgh, is a two-storey Baronial villa designed by David MacGibbon and Ross around 1878. The building has been converted for use as a hospital, with an Art Deco wing added in 1934 by J Douglas Miller. It is currently functioning as a residential nursing home. The exterior features squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, a base course, a dividing string course, an eaves cornice, long and short quoins, and chamfered reveals.

The south entrance elevation has three bays, with service wings recessed to the east and west. The central bay includes a corniced doorpiece with an architraved and shouldered doorway, a two-leaf panelled door, and a plate glass fanlight above a single window on the first floor. To the outer right is an advanced gabled bay featuring an advanced tripartite window at ground level and an advanced bipartite window with a canopy on the first floor, along with a bipartite window in the gablehead topped with a stone finial. The outer left bay has a canted window that is corbelled out on the first floor and corbelled to a square at the gablehead, which also features a trefoil-headed window and a stone finial.

The east elevation has a single window on the first floor next to a three-storey circular-section tower, which is topped with a conical roof covered in fishscale slates and an iron weathervane finial. The service wings include a single-storey pitched roof service wing to the west and a single-storey and attic link from the main house to a single-storey, pitched roof, T-plan service wing to the east. The laundry has been converted into a chapel, originally designed by A Murray Hardie in 1919 and enlarged by W J Devlin in 1928. The windows are plate glass sash and case, and the roof is covered in grey slate with shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks, as well as a polygonal stack adjoining the tower. Some original rainwater goods remain, including moulded eaves guttering and hoppers. The 1934 wing is a two-storey butterfly-plan structure featuring a central round-arched entrance block and a flat roof.

The property is also marked by two capped ashlar gatepiers with chamfered angles located at the corner of Blackford Avenue and South Oswald Road, along with high coped boundary walls along the streets. There are pedestrian gateways through the walls leading to Blackford Avenue and Oswald Road.