View of specimen bedroom from East in Ochil ward on first floor. Digital image of C 44186.

Description View of specimen bedroom from East in Ochil ward on first floor. Digital image of C 44186.

Date 17/5/1994

Catalogue Number SC 721047

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 44186

Scope and Content Bedroom, Ochil ward, Carstairs State Hospital, South Lanarkshire Carstairs State Hospital was built in several stages. The buildings to the west of the site were built in the late 1930s to replace the criminal lunatic department of Perth prison. The buildings to the east were built 1956-8 to designs by architect Stewart Sim and feature small harled 'villas' with stone gables, buttresses and carvings in the manner of 16th-/17th-century traditional Scottish architecture. The hospital was extended and refurbished in the 1980s. This shows one of the patients' bedrooms, with its simple furnishings of narrow bed with veneered head-and foot-boards, which matches the desk, bookcase and wardrobe. The floor is carpeted. Glazing bars in the window are made of iron for security, with only the top and bottom sections opening for ventilation. Sleeping accommodation for 30 patients is situated on the first floor of the block, with day and dining rooms, attendants' rooms, toilets, boot room and doctor's room on the ground floor. The patients' rooms are heated by coils set into the concrete ceilings. The east wing of this hospital has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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