Nurses' Home, Hartwood Hospital, Hartwood

James Lochhead, 1926. Extensive, 3-storey and attic, U-plan, Baronial-style nurses residential home. Bull-faced snecked rubble; rendered at attic floor; ashlar dressings; deep basecourse. Moulded and corbelled parapets; prominent crowstepped gables; stone balustrades and terrace.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Central 11-bay section,

arranged 4-1-1-1-4 with slightly advanced, gabled entrance bay; 4-bay

pavilion ends to projecting wings. Corbelled stone balustrades over principal and secondary entrances (turreted and moulded parapet with octagonal chimney stacks to principal entrance). 11 bays to right and left returns with 3-light bowed windows set at each angle and central full-height metal fire escapes.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: nearly symmetrical; 14 bays (10 bays to ground floor). Slightly advanced, gabled bays to ends (1-bay, 3-storey section to far left); 2 5-light canted transommed and mullioned windows and tripartite and bipartite windows at ground floor.

SW (GARDEN) ELEVATION: nearly symmetrical; 19 bays, arranged 3-5-3-5-3. Central heavily corbelled parapet between ground and 1st floors set above round arched entrance and terminating with 3-light canted windows. Double gables to centre set above. Gabled ends with projecting 3-storey sections, corbelled-out terraces and canted 2-storey windows. Massive pair of octagonal and moulded stone piers (former light holders) flanking central stone steps and terminating low stone balustraded.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 14 bays. Similar arrangement to SE elevation.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Pitched roofs; grey slates; overhanging eaves at attic floor.