Courtyard Fountain, Nurses Home, Royal Infirmary, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, 1890-2. Single storey and attic Queen Anne quadrangle with 2-storey pedimented central and mansard-roofed lucarned corner pavilions, built round a central court and linked to E by a single storey conservatory to the former George Watson's Hospital (separately listed). Red 'pressed' brick with yellow ashlar dressings and decorative banding. Swept bracketed eaves. Decorative lanterns/ventilators to all pavilions.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced gabled 3-bay central block with scrolled, curvilinear pediment; entrance in single storey canted bay; modern 2-leaf door flanked by narrow windows, with 5 small windows over; narrow windows with circular blind openings over to outer bays and returns at ground floor; Serliana at 1st floor level, flanked by smaller windows; 2 small windows with panel above in gable. Recessed 4-bay linking ranges with decorative gabled dormers breaking eaves at attic level in 3 inner bays, slightly advanced flat-roofed outer bays with doors to ground and tripartite stone-mullioned and -transomed windows above. Square corner pavilions: 4 small windows to ground and 1st floors.

N, E AND S ELEVATIONS: as above, but with pedimented advanced centre block, stone-mullioned bipartite windows to ground and 1st floors, circular opening in gable and splayed corners; windows to ground floors of outer recessed bays; bipartite stone-mullioned windows to ground and 1st floors of corner pavilions. Foliate carved plaque above garden entrance to E dated 1891.

CENTRAL COURTYARD AND FOUNTAIN: plain brick with yellow ashlar lintels. 2-tier cast-iron fountain (dolphins etc) with composite stone basin to centre.

INTERIOR: compartmented ceiling to entrance foyer (now shop). Small leaded panes with stained glass to overdoors of several rooms.

CONSERVATORY: pitched-roofed L-shaped conservatory on red brick lower walls with french door to garden to S forms linking corridor to former George Watson's Hospital building to NE.

6-pane upper sashes, 2-pane lower in timber sash and case windows. Geenish slates with terracotta ridging tiles. Brick chimneys with ashlar mouldings and cornices, circular cans. Cast-iron downpipes with urn-shaped hoppers.