General view of Carnegie Lodge from S including garden pavilion Digital image of E 3924 cn

Description General view of Carnegie Lodge from S including garden pavilion Digital image of E 3924 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776787

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Carnegie Lodge, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the garden pavilion This large impressive villa, set in its own wooded grounds, has a long entrance front looking out over terraced lawns to the south. The large two-storeyed central block, with a three-bayed advanced centrepiece with long mullioned windows, is flanked by lower, two-storeyed wings leading to advanced gabled end pavilions. A large recreation hall occupied the first floor of the central block, and the side wings housed the sitting rooms, dining rooms and sleeping accommodation for male patients on one side, and female patients on the other side. The little octagonal rustic garden pavilion (left), with a slated roof and tree-trunks supporting the roof, was a popular feature in Victorian times, and provided a comfortable, sheltered garden house for patients to sit in on warm summer afternoons. Carnegie Lodge was designed exclusively for private patients, and built in 1900 within its own extensive grounds. The patients came mainly from the 'higher classes', and often brought their personal servants and carriages with them. Unlike pauper lunatics, private patients were not required to work, and were relatively free to spend their time as they wished and to indulge in their favourite pastimes or sports. The villa was designed on the lines of a country house, and was intended to make the patients feel at home, providing an atmosphere of comfort and elegance with which most of the patients were familiar. The extensive grounds allowed patients the freedom to walk, play croquet or tennis, and pass the time in exactly the same way as they would have done at home. Many patients were not clinically ill, but simply admitted themselves on the basis that they were entering a better place to live than the outside world. Sunnyside Royal Hospital, designed by the architect, William Lambie Moffatt (1808-82), was built in 1855-7 on a hillside site 6km north of Montrose to replace the old Royal Asylum in the town. The new site was further developed in 1888-91 when a hospital block, designed by the architects, Sydney Mitchell & Wilson, was built to the north-west of the main building, and a large villa, Carnegie Lodge, designed by the Aberdeen architect, William Kelly (c.1861-1944), was added to house private patients. Another two villas, Howden Villa and North Esk Villa, were built in the early 1900s to provide accommodation for pauper patients, and a nurses' home was constructed in 1935. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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