Nairn Town And County Hospital, Cawdor Road, Nairn

1904 - 1906 (1906 datestone) hospital designed by William Mackintosh of Inverness (fl. 1870-1913) (Gifford 1992, 281, 666). Symmetrical renaissance composition, quite decorative and broadly formulaic in design: three blocks linked by recessed porches, full-length spinal corridor inside, wards leading off either side. 2-storey 3-bay central administrative block with bipartite windows throughout, shallow-advanced centre with curvilinear gable; outer ward blocks with L-plan fronts, big 3-light windows in their front gables. Stugged and snecked grey ashlar with dressed details and sculptural ornament (for instance, window pediments); plate-glass windows - characteristic hospital-type windows at ground level (2-pane sash and case and top hopper); orthodox sash and case windows on upper level. Kneelered skews, ball-finialed gable-heads; end and rear wall-head chimney stacks (some reduced in height). Slate roofs.

Plainer architecture at the rear, but for the maternity wing (opened 1932 by Lady Leven), a handsome revivalist composition with multi-paned windows on 2 levels. Designed almost like a medieval great hall: its main front a long wall with mullioned and transomed ground floor windows (again, with hoppers incorporated at ground level; pedimented dormers in attic above), the left hand bay with a giant window lighting a communal space. Ward blocks (again, leading off a long corridor which has a modern link to the main block) occupy the ground floor. Harled walls, dressed ashlar detailing and stacks; slate roof. An Out-Patient Department was also added shortly after World War II.

All set in open landscaped grounds, with specimen trees; low perimeter wall to street (railings removed); panelled gatepiers (no gates).