Administration Block, Royal Victoria Hospital is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 November 2007. Administration block.
Administration Block, Royal Victoria Hospital
- WRENN ID
- guardian-bracket-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 November 2007
- Type
- Administration block
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sydney Mitchell & Wilson. 1906. 2 storey, 5 bay traditional Scots administration block with single storey and attic wing linking to Italianate dining hall with prominent campanile. Rendered masonry with ashlar to doorpiece and wallhead window margins. Purple ashlar masonry to dining hall.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION: E (entrance) elevation with advanced central bay with baroque ionic-pilastered doorpiece and large armorial panel above (see Notes), pair of gabled dormers to left and right with diamond insets to gableheads. S elevation with Italianate dining hall to left, 7 bays, 5 central bays glazed, outer bays with recessed central sections with niche and panel inset. Ballustraded eaves. 4 stage campanile to right of hall, lower stages harled. Round arched opening to ground, ashlar bellcote above string course with round arched openings to each face and swept roof above.
Prodominantly multi-pane glazing in timber fixed light and sash and case windows. Grey slate, red tile ridge.
INTERIOR: partially seen (2007), fine interior to board room with ornate chimneypiece and vaulted plaster ceiling, dining hall now subdivided.
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