Lanarkshire Health Board, 14 Beckford Street, Hamilton

The Lanarkshire Health Board building, located at 14 Beckford Street in Hamilton, was designed by Alexander Cullen in 1899. This two-storey, square-plan structure features 11 bays on the front and 12 bays on the side elevations, showcasing a free Renaissance style. It is constructed of cream ashlar sandstone with a rubble rear and has a slate roof.

The building has a channelled basement and a cill course at the ground floor, as well as at the first floor on the side elevations. The ground floor windows are adorned with large keystones and a continuous band course, while the first-floor windows are architraved and feature a corbelled cill course on the front elevation. The design includes a plain frieze, an entilled and corbelled cornice, and paired giant Ionic pilasters at the pedimented angle pavilions, which are pierced by glazed oculi. Some original cast-iron rectangular rainwater goods with fleur-de-lis decoration at the heads remain.

On the west (front) elevation, there is a slightly advanced bay at the centre of the ground floor, which features a round-headed keystoned doorcase flanked by small windows. This area has a pulvinated frieze with triglyphs and a massive consoled broken pediment. Above, a corniced window on the first floor is surmounted by an achievement of arms and flanked by smaller segmentally-pedimented windows, with two additional windows on either side. The outer left and right sides have slightly advanced two-bay pavilions.

The south elevation has eight bays in the centre with windows on both the ground and first floors, and slightly advanced two-bay pavilions on the left and right. The north elevation mirrors the south but includes a single-storey pedimented porch at the left re-entrant. The east elevation is plain and features a modern fire escape.

Inside, the main entrance hall boasts round-headed arches and mosaic domed ceiling panels at the ground floor. A massive ashlar imperial staircase with turned balusters leads up, surrounded by a pilastered ashlar stairwell with a decorative plaster frieze and a compartmentalised coomb ceiling. Stained glass windows illuminate the staircase.

The building's exterior is complemented by five ashlar gatepiers on the front elevation, although the sixth pier on the far right has been removed. Large decorative cast-iron lampstandards flank the front entrance, but the iron railings are missing.