Wigtown House, Crichton Royal Hospital, Bankend Road, Dumfries

Wigtown House, part of the Crichton Royal Hospital complex, is a two-story villa built between 1912 and 1914. Constructed of bull-faced red sandstone with ashlar dressings, it features cill courses and a dentilled cornice. The building follows a symmetrical H-shaped plan.

The southwest elevation, overlooking the garden, comprises a recessed central block and a full-width verandah. Above, there are six windows on the first floor, with a single window in the re-entrant angles. Advanced end returns feature paired windows centrally on the ground floor, flanked by single windows. The first-floor arrangement mirrors this, with a taller paired window set within a shaped gable containing an oculus.

The side elevations feature seven bays with four windows and three paired windows on both the ground and first floors.

The northeast elevation—the rear—has a recessed central block topped by a wallhead stack. A central door is flanked by two ground-floor windows to the left and three windows above. A return wing on the left includes a tall stair window and four closely spaced ground-floor windows to the right, alongside a corniced doorway to the left. The first floor has three windows to the right of the stair window and a single window to the left. A mirrored wing on the right also has a wallhead stack towards the outer right. The return elevations of the wings have paired windows to the left and single windows to the right on both the ground and first floors.

The interior of the building has not been inspected.

The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case designs. The roof is covered with piended grey/green slate, with octagonal ventilators topped with lead. The building has coped sandstone stacks and cast iron rainwater goods. Modern disabled ramps have been added.

Originally known as Wigtown House, the building was constructed as an open villa intended to accommodate paupers. References exist in an unpublished report by Harriet Richardson, commissioned by Historic Scotland, documenting a survey of Scottish hospitals. The statutory address is The Crichton, Mochrum and Monreith.