Chalmers Hospital, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

Chalmers Hospital, located on Lauriston Place in Edinburgh, was designed by Peddie and Kinnear in 1864, with later alterations and additions. The building features a three-storey, three-bay central block flanked by two-storey, seven-bay wings, with the basement of the wings filled in by a later construction. The exterior is made of yellow polished ashlar, with a stugged finish at the basement level. There are cill courses at the ground and first floors, and the eaves are bracketed. The corners of the building are stop-chamfered, and the windows have stop-chamfered moulded surrounds, with depressed arches on the second floor.

On the northern (principal) elevation, there is a two-leaf timber panelled door with a blind fanlight, set in a stop-chamfered corniced and consoled surround at the centre of the block. The first floor features shoulder-arched windows, while the second floor has two-light windows separated by colonnettes with foliate capitals, adorned with decorative foliate carvings above and below, all set in depressed-arched recesses. The corners of the second-floor windows are enhanced with slim spiral shafts.

The eastern and western elevations showcase tripartite stone-mullioned shoulder-arched windows on the ground and first floors. The rear elevation is largely obscured by later additions.

The windows throughout the building are fitted with 8-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. The chimney stacks are corniced and splayed, featuring vertical banding and circular cans.

The boundary walls include later cast-iron railings at the basement level, complemented by an ashlar-coped stugged coursed sandstone boundary wall.

Additionally, there is a single-storey lodge on the property, constructed with coursed ashlar at the front and coursed rubble on the sides and rear. It has bracketed eaves and projecting cills, with plate glass in timber sash and case windows, although some windows facing the street are blocked. The lodge features two timber doors leading to a slated projection at the rear, and it has a piend roof covered in grey slates, topped with a corniced chimney that has a circular can.