Thomas Hope Hospital, David Street, Langholm

Thomas Hope Hospital, located on David Street in Langholm, was designed by the architects Wood and Ainslie of London and built between 1896 and 1898, with rainwater heads dating from 1896. This asymmetrical hospital features Scots baronial detailing and includes a modern health centre addition at the northwest. The building has an irregular plan with one and two-storey ranges, centered around a massive dummy tower house. The single-storey ranges extend to the south and west, arranged around a west-facing terraced courtyard that overlooks a garden. The west side features an open and arcaded battered basement.

The main entrance is on the east side of the range closest to the southeast. The exterior is constructed from bull-nosed, snecked white stone masonry, with roll-moulded windows that are mostly paired or grouped, and occasionally corniced or topped with gabled or segmental dormer heads above eaves level. The gables have skews that run horizontally over massive plain skewputts. The tower is topped with a crenellated deep parapet that has cable moulding, raised over small attic windows, and features spouts and coped central stacks on the east and west, each with a chimney breast rising from ground level. There is a door to the terrace in the southwest tower angle, and a corbelled circular stair turret above, which is also crenellated. The terrace includes a canted west-facing window that is corbelled to a square below the gable, along with serpentine balustrades and steps leading to the garden. The building has coped stacks and slate roofs, with a swept-roofed ventilator at the north end of the long north range. The modern addition is made of yellow brick.

Inside, there is an octagonal operating theatre located towards the south, featuring steel and steel-lined doors, a blocked fireplace, and a central cupola.

To the west of the main building is the GATE LODGE, which is detailed similarly to the hospital. It is two storeys high with an off-centre gable facing the hospital driveway, a porch in the re-entrant angle, and a wavy wall-head parapet that continues over the return elevation to David Street. The lodge also features an elaborate crest set in a curved corner. The property is enclosed by elaborate wrought-iron gates, standards, and railings.

Additionally, there is a detached small octagonal MORTUARY located to the southeast, which has a facetted roof and a leaded bell-cast apex ventilator. The garden is mostly enclosed by coped bull-nosed ashlar boundary walls with buttresses, with the walls on the north and west sides being stugged and featuring wrought-iron railings.