13 Newtonloan Court, Hunterfield Road, Gorebridge

13 Newtonloan Court, Hunterfield Road, Gorebridge

A single storey and attic domestic-scale building, forming part of a former fever hospital complex designed by Edinburgh-based architect James Jerdan in 1890. The site was provided by local landowner Robert Dundas of Arniston. The first phase was completed by 1892, with additional isolation wards and nursing accommodation added between 1891 and 1896, also by Jerdan. Further additions were made by Alexander Murray Hardie in 1910. The complex was converted to a care home (Newtonloan Lodge) in 1953–54, and subsequently converted to eight private residences in 1997–98.

The buildings are designed in the Queen Anne revival style and constructed largely of red brick with sandstone dressings, grey slate roofs, prominent gables and tall chimney stacks.

The complex comprises four separate blocks: a detached ward block to the west (No 13), the main building consisting of three interlinked ward blocks (Nos 14–18), a smaller pavilion ward to the north (No 19), and a detached former lodge and administration building to the south corner of the site (No 20).

No 13 is a detached former ward block with an advanced central doorway to the southeast elevation, flanking windows and central brick chimney stack. The southwest (Hunterfield Road) elevation has a rendered gable and bipartite window with round-headed pediment, with steps to a doorway to the left. The northwest (rear) elevation has advanced piend-roofed wings to the outer bays and a central three-light canted window.

Nos 14–18 form an irregular-plan arrangement of three interlinked, gable-ended former ward blocks with yellow brick band courses, red sandstone dressings, rounded dormer window heads and tall chimney stacks. The southwest (Hunterfield Road) elevation has panelled timber doorways set within the links between the three gable-ended blocks. The central block's gable has corniced windows at ground and first floors. The left block has two round-headed pediments to the ground floor and a three-light window with moulded cill within the rendered gable. The slightly larger right block has a broad three-light window with multi-pane glazing at ground floor, a pair of roof ventilators with slated pyramidal caps and a large chimney stack with moulded cornice. The southeast (garden) elevation is seven bays long with a canted and slated window outshot at the central bay. Mid-twentieth century additions to the rear (northeast) include a flat-roofed link adjoining the formerly detached pavilion ward.

No 19 is a single storey and attic, symmetrical three-bay former pavilion ward with central ridge chimney stack and shouldered skews. It has an advanced central doorway with bipartite dormer above and single windows flanking in outer bays. A smaller outshot to the northeast gable has a round-arched opening. The southeast (rear) elevation has a central bowed bay.

No 20 is a detached former lodge and administration building at the southernmost corner of the site. The northwest elevation is two-bay with a corniced doorway in the right bay. The building has a decorative iron lamp bracket and tall, corniced brick ridge stack. A later lean-to addition is present to the northeast elevation.

Windows throughout the complex are predominantly timber-framed sash and case with varying glazing patterns including 4-, 8- and 12-pane, with some small-pane casement windows. The buildings have grey slate roofs, some with terracotta ridging. Many chimney stacks are tall and prominent with cornicing and tapered clay cans. Rainwater goods are predominantly cast iron.

The boundary walls are of sandstone rubble construction with a low saddleback wall to Hunterfield Road, featuring carriage and pedestrian gateways with ornamental wrought-iron gates and railings. The gateways have square sandstone ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps. A red wall-mounted letterbox is located beside the southernmost gateway. A further gateway with square gatepiers and rounded caps is present in the northeast wall.

All interiors (Nos 13–20) and the conservatory to the rear of No 13 are excluded from the listing in accordance with Section 1(4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.