Chalmers Hospital, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

Peddie and Kinnear, 1864, with later alterations and additions. 3-storey, 3-bay centre block with 2-storey and basement 7-bay flanking wings (basement filled in with later building). Yellow polished ashlar, stugged to basement. Cill course at ground and 1st floors. Bracketed eaves. Stop-chamfered corners to building. Windows in stop-chamfered moulded surrounds, depressed-arched at 2nd floor.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door with blind fanlight in stop-chamfered corniced and consoled surround in centre block; shoulder-arched windows to 1st floor; 2-light windows separated by colonnettes with foliate capitals to 2nd floor with decorative foliate carving above and below, in depressed-arched recess; slim spiral shafts carved into corners.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: tripartite stone-mullioned shoulder-arched windows to ground and 1st floor.

Rear elevation largely obscured by later additions.

8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Corniced, splayed stacks with vertical banding and circular cans.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: later cast-iron railings to basement. Ashlar-coped stugged coursed sandstone boundary wall.

LODGE: single storey lodge. Coursed ashlar to front, coursed rubble to side and rear. Bracketed eaves. Projecting cills. Plate glass in timber sash and case windows; windows blocked to street. 2 timber doors to slated projection to rear. Grey slates to piend roof. Corniced chimney with circular can.