Kildean Hospital, Stirling

Kildean Hospital is a hospital building begun in 1901 and officially opened in 1904, designed by Ebenezer Simpson of Stirling and built by B Reynolds. It comprises a two-storey, three-bay rectangular block with single-storey, two-bay wings flanking it, creating a U-plan layout, with the wings originally serving as an administrative block. The building features canted bay windows on the ground floor of the principal elevation, a central pediment, and a moulded string course that continues as a cornice to the door and bay windows. The exterior is constructed from snecked rock-faced sandstone with stop-chamfered ashlar window surrounds, ashlar margins to doors, long and short quoins, and a slightly advanced plinth to the south.

The south (principal) elevation is symmetrical, with a decorative doorpiece featuring a moulded and rusticated architrave and keystone. The frieze above the doorway is carved with a stylised floral motif, including the inscription "ERECTED AD 1903." Single windows are positioned on either side of the central entrance. Canted bay windows extend to the outer bays, with a bipartite window centrally placed. A recessed plaque sits above the bay window, and a corniced bipartite window with a frieze is positioned centrally on the first floor above the door, flanked by single windows close to the eaves. A corniced pediment rises above the roofline, bearing the inscription "THE STIRLING COMBINATION HOSPITAL" below it. The tympanum of the pediment displays coats of arms representing Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Dunblane, Doune and Callander, with ball finials flanking the design. The wings are set back to the left and right, each containing two windows. A later stone ramp and steps with cast-iron railings provide access to the main entrance.

The west elevation features a central bipartite window on the first floor of the main block and three windows on the wing.

The north elevation incorporates an advanced, partially infilled piended porch, a door, and windows, with bipartite windows to the outer bays. The left side has two first-floor windows, while the right side has three, with a smaller central window. Advanced flanking wings feature a plain elevation on the right, with an outshot to the east, and two doors in the left return. The left wing has two windows on the north elevation and a window and door in the right return.

The east elevation displays a central first-floor window on the main block and an advanced wing with a single window to the left, two windows to the right, and a central bipartite window.

The entrance features a two-leaf, timber panelled door with a fanlight. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass. The roof is covered with grey slate, with clay ridge and hip tiles, and overhanging eaves. Corniced ashlar stacks rise from the pediment, with a central wallhead stack to the north, and two circular clay cans to each stack.

The interior of the building was not inspected in 2002.

A snecked rock-faced boundary wall with flat coping stones runs along Drip Road, enclosing the hospital site. A lower wall with plain cast-iron railings sits to the east, while a taller stone wall without railings borders the west. A pair of corniced and banded entrance piers, with chamfered bases surmounted by swept stones with ball finials, mark the entrance to the east, with a similar terminating pier (lacking a finial) to the west.