Gowrie House, Dundee Liff Hospital, Dundee

Gowrie House, originally Liff Hospital, was designed by Thomas Saunders Robertson and built between 1898 and 1901, with a date of 1900 inscribed on the building. It is a Baronial-style hospital building arranged in an "E" plan, with a single-storey central section and three- and two-storey wings. The building is constructed from squared, stugged and snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings, a base course, and chamfered arrises. Moulded string courses divide the floors of the three-storey wings, and crowstepped gables are present throughout. The windows on the second floor have chamfered heads.

The main elevation features a two-stage entrance block at the centre with an advanced, pedimented porch. The porch contains a decorative, two-leaf door within a roll-moulded surround, with plate glass fanlight and narrow lights. Barley-sugar colonnettes are positioned at the angles and above the door panel, which is framed with scrolled leaves and bears the inscription 'MIRACULA ANIMI CAELO MAIORA SUNT'. Above the inscription is a scroll-adorned pediment bearing the carved insignia 'TSR' and a thistle finial. Stone balustrades, stepped and layered, lead to the entrance, flanked by paired cast iron lamp standards. Stepped and layered corbel tables rise to the gablehead, which incorporates a shield panel. Transomed windows flank the entrance block, and engaged circular section angle towers frame the elevation with windows at ground level and corbelled gableheads above, each bearing a carved panel of a heraldic shield. Single-storey bays flank the main block, connecting to the three-storey end blocks, which feature broad, canted six-light windows with crenellated parapets, flanked by paired single windows. The three-storey outer blocks are mirrored, each of four bays with regular fenestration to the ground and first floor of the inner bays. Angle turrets corbel out from the first floor, each with small windows at the second floor, topped with a conical roof. Dormerheads break the eaves in the centre of the roof, while three-storey round angle towers close the elevation, each with windows on every floor and a conical roof.

The side elevations are mirrored, each with a three-storey corner tower mirroring those on the main elevation. These towers clasp a gable with two windows to both the ground and first floors, and one to the second floor. A gabled porch with a roll-moulded round-arched opening and side lights to a panelled door with fanlight is situated off-centre. A gabled bay with bipartite windows is located near the centre. Two paired two-storey bays are positioned to the rear, with a gable over the outer bays and a small window and conical roof to the outer angle.

The rear elevation is two-storeys high and symmetrical, closing the central wing. It features a central door topped by a heavy ashlar bracket supporting a crenellated canopy. Windows flank the door, and canted windows are present in the outer bays. A mirrored pattern of fenestration is found on the return walls of the principal wings.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and ridge and gablehead stone stacks are present. The interior includes a hall located in the central joint of the "E", accessed via twin panelled stairs with a quasi-hammerbeam and timber boarded ceiling. Tall windows have panelled shutters, and a plaster roundel with a decorative ventilation grille is also present, alongside good plasterwork and panelling.