Haddington And Including Boundary Walls, Aberlady Road, (Admissions Unit) Hermandflat Hospital, Garlton Unit

Haddington, located on Aberlady Road, is a residential hospital admissions unit designed by Peter Womersley in 1965. This two-storey building features a flat roof and has a symmetrical rectangular plan with 14 bays. The outer bays on the first floor are raised and cantilevered, while a separate four-storey plain brick lift tower is situated to the northeast, connected by a glazed link. The building is set on sloping ground at a corner site within the main hospital grounds, overlooking an apple orchard to the east.

The main elevations are characterized by horizontal banding, with concrete vertical ribs that define the bays, and rough pebbledash elements framing horizontally aligned windows. The side elevations are made of brick, featuring central doors, asymmetrical slit windows on the first floor, and horizontal concrete bands. A later access ramp has been added. The entrance porch is advanced and flat-roofed, with a plinth and a separate patio balcony area at the southwest corner, which includes broad timber handrails on double vertical upstands.

The windows are predominantly timber-framed with offset metal tilt and turn sections, and heat and light reflective film has been recently added to them. The flat roof has internal drainage.

Inside, the original symmetrical layout of the wards and rooms remains intact, with exposed brickwork in the main entrance hall and a dog leg stairwell featuring open tread stairs. The staircase, with plain cast iron verticals and a broad timber handrail, reflects Womersley's design style. Grooved timber boarded partitions are still present on the upper-level landing, although they have been painted. Other original timber ceilings and details have been lost due to upgrades made in line with fire regulations in 2005.

The boundary walls consist of rounded coped stone walls along the street elevation, featuring central double wrought iron entrance gates set between stone retaining walls that lead to a paved courtyard entrance area with mushroom-style exterior downlights. Tall curved random rubble walls to the north and east create a parking area at the rear of the building.