Former Nurses Home, Bangour Village Hospital

Hippolyte J Blanc, begun 1898 completed 1906 and E J MacRae, 1931. 3-storey and attic, 11-bay, symmetrical, restrained Scots Renaissance style former nurses home with single-storey linking corridor to later 1931, 3-storey, 14-bay symmetrical extension to E. Situated on prominent site to rear of former Bangour Village Hospital complex. Roughly coursed and snecked red sandstone with contrasting cream ashlar margins and quoins. Base course, cornice. Round-arched dormerheads breaking eaves. Small square, flat-roofed dormers. Some later stairwell additions to rear (N) and E.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 11-bay block to left with slightly advanced central 3-bays. Central segmental-arched entrance doorway with moulded and keystoned doorpiece and recessed door; shouldered-gabled dormerhead breaking wallhead above. Cornice at 1st storey. Pair of flanking 3-storey canted, ogee-roofed towers with tall spike finials. Advanced piended roofed end bays with canted and square 4-light windows to ground and central small tripartitie roof dormers. 1931 section to right with central pedimented bay with window to gable.

Grey slates with decorative red ridge tiles. Piended roofs. Predominantly 6-pane glazing pattern to upper timber sashes and with boarded lower sashes in timber sash and case windows. Tall, corniced ridge and wallhead stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen (2011).