Former Corstorphine Hospital Building, Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh

The former Corstorphine Hospital building, designed by the Edinburgh architects Peddie and Kinnear, dates to 1866 and represents an Italianate style. It was extended in 1891 by the same practice with two-storey pavilions added to the east and west. Later 20th-century additions exist at the rear. In 1961-2, glass curtain walling was added to fill in the front arcades and balconies, but this and certain other additions are excluded from the listing.

The main hospital building is constructed of ashlar and features channelled quoins, raised margins, cill courses, a dentilled cornice, and key-arched architraves to the round-arched first-floor windows. It has a symmetrical layout, with a central, three-bay, three-storey, piend-roofed entrance section. Flanking this are two-storey, five-bay wings, and at the outer ends, advanced, gabled, two-storey pavilions with bay windows on the ground floor. Square-plan, bulls-eyed towers, topped with louvred ventilators, are situated at the east and west ends.

A flat-roofed porch is positioned centrally, featuring a consoled, key-stoned and architraved doorpiece. Round-arched, bi-partite windows, separated by colonettes at first floor level, sit within key-stoned architraves with decorative roundels. The outer bays have Venetian-style windows at the first floor, with the central part having bi-partite windows separated by colonettes and broken pediments above. Foliate carving decorates the bulls-eye windows within the towers.

The windows are largely timber sash and case, with four-over-four panes, and are boarded at ground floor level. The roofs are slate. The interior, viewed in 2015, contains large open wards, and some smaller rooms that retain simple cornicing. There are two staircases separated by a dividing wall, with the right-hand staircase rising to the upper storey.

The South Lodge, also dating to 1866, is located at the Corstorphine Road entrance and is a single-storey, piend-roofed, Italianate lodge with a slightly advanced, off-centre porch, a key-stoned architrave and raised margins. An inspection in 2015 revealed the lodge has been partitioned into smaller rooms of no particular architectural interest.

A low, coped boundary wall runs along the south side with quadrant walls and square-plan gatepiers marking the entrance. Taller rubble boundary walls enclose the east, west and north sides of the property.