Thomas Hope Hospital, David Street, Langholm

Wood and Ainslie of London architects, 1896-8 (1896 rainwater

heads). Asymmetrical hospital with Scots baronial detailing

(modern health centre addition at NW). Irregular-plan; one

and 2-storey ranges with main axis and stair in massive dummy

tower house; ranges to S and to W of latter all single storey

and arranged around west-facing terraced courtyard

overlooking garden, open and arcaded battered basement at W.

East-facing main door in range nearest SE. Bull-nosed,

snecked (whita stone) masonry, roll-moulded windows mostly

paired or grouped, occasionally corniced or with gabled or

segmental dormerheads above eaves level, gables with skews

run horizontally over massive plain skewputts. Tower has

crenellated deep parapet with cable moulding raised over

small attic windows and with spouts, coped central stack E

and W, each with chimney breast rising from ground level;

door to terrace in SW tower angle, corbelled circular stair

turret above also crenellated. Terrace with canted

west-facing window corbelled to square below gable;

serpentine balustrades, steps to garden. Coped stacks; slate

roofs.

Swept-roofed ventilator at N end of long N range; addition is

yellow brick.

INTERIOR: octagonal operating theatre towards S, with steel

and steel-lined doors, blocked fireplace, central cupola.

GATE LODGE detailed as on main building to W; 2 storeys,

off-centre gable to hospital driveway, porch in re-entrant

angle, wavy wall-head parapet continued over return elevation

to David Street, elaborate crest set in curved corner.

Elaborate wrought-iron gates, standards and railings.

Detached small octagonal MORTUARY to SE with facetted roof,

leaded bell-cast apex ventilator.

GARDEN mostly enclosed by coped bull-nosed ashlar boundary

walls with buttresses, walls at N and W stugged, and with

wrought-iron railings.