Plan of farm

Description Plan of farm

Date 1853

Catalogue Number SC 755740

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 12348 CN

Scope and Content Photographic copy of plans by Peddie & Kinnear for Farm Steading at Stratheden Hospital, Springfield, Cupar, Fife This plan shows Peddie & Kinnear's proposed designs for the hospital's farm steading. The building was designed as a series of units built around the sides of a square, with the entrance to each unit reached from a central courtyard. The series of smaller units (top) made up the piggery: each pig house was designed to accommodate a sow and her litter, and had access to an outdoor enclosure built in front of each house. Two stable units (bottom) each provided stalls for three horses, and two double-arched cart sheds (centre) faced each other across the courtyard. The piggery and stables were provided with drains and drainage channels. The isolated unit on the right was a granary. Asylums in general had their own farms and gardens which provided work for male patients. The farm was often the provider of produce, not only for the asylum itself, but also for the wider community. The male patients were encouraged to work, particularly in the jobs and trades which they had held in life outside the hospital. Female patients were also encouraged to work, but mainly in indoor occupations such as dressmaking and laundry work. Stratheden Hospital, a large complex designed by the Edinburgh architects, Peddie & Kinnear, was built in 1863-5 and opened in 1866 as the Fife & Kinross District Asylum with accommodation for 200 pauper lunatics. Later additions included a hospital block in 1891 by the same firm of architects, then known as Kinnear & Peddie, and a new nurses' home designed by Andrew Haxton in 1929. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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