Lodge, Sauchie Hospital, Parkhead Road, Alloa

Messrs Melvin & Son, architects, 1895. Single storey, 3 bay lodge to former infectious diseases hospital. Squared and snecked bull faced pink sandstone to SW elevation, squared and snecked sandstone rubble to remainder, polished ashlar dressings. Base course; stop chamfered long and short dressings; projecting cills on scrolled panels; long and short dressings and quoins; overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards (gableheads originally half timbered, now infilled).

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; doorway to centre bay of ground floor, panelled timber door; bipartite window to flanking bay to left; gabled bay advanced to right, bipartite window to centre, open segmental pediment above.

SE ELEVATION: blank.

NE ELEVATION: not seen 2001.

NW ELEVATION: gabled.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows with margine-pane glazing pattern to upper sashes. Graded green grey slate roof, terracotta tiled ridges with finials to gableheads. Corniced gablehead stacks and stacks breaking pitch, circular cans. Cast iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.

INTERIOR: not seen 2001.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: gateway to W of lodge, low sandstone quadrant walls surmounted by railings flanking, square plan sandstone ashlar piers at angle, with segmental arched caps.