Carnegie Lodge -view of ground-floor billiard room from SE Digital image of E 3935 cn

Description Carnegie Lodge -view of ground-floor billiard room from SE Digital image of E 3935 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776791

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Billiard Room, Carnegie Lodge, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus This splendid billiard room was built at the rear of the male wing of Carnegie Lodge, and was designed as a recreation and smoking room for male patients. The wooden panelling which lines the walls to door height incorporates a carved chimneypiece with a mirrored overmantel. An arched recess, lined with raised seating, forms a comfortable viewing platform for spectators. Ventilators, set in the sides of the recess, provide an escape route for tobacco smoke. Carnegie Lodge, built in 1900, was designed exclusively for private paying patients, and was laid out more along the lines of a country house than an institution. Most patients were wealthy and came from a social standing where houses generally had their own billiard room. The game was very popular in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and often referred to as the 'sport of gentlemen' as the table was very expensive to buy, and required a large room in a house to be set apart for its use. 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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