General view of Carnegie Lodge from S Digital image of E 3922 cn

Description General view of Carnegie Lodge from S Digital image of E 3922 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776762

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Carnegie Lodge, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the south This impressive villa, named Carnegie Lodge after Mrs Susan Carnegie of Charlton, the founder of the old Royal Asylum in Montrose, was built in 1900 within its own grounds at a discreet distance from the main hospital building. It was designed on an E-plan, with a long south-facing front with Jacobean-style detailing. 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 with great bay windows. Carnegie Lodge was built as a smaller version of the main hospital building, with a large, central administration block flanked by L-shaped wings, one for male patients and the other for female patients. The central administration block contained the public rooms including a great recreation hall on the first floor, and the wings contained the kitchens, dining rooms, sitting rooms, bathrooms and bedrooms. The villa was designed as a country house, with rich fittings and furnishings, and offered patients the opportunity to live as if they were part of a normal, if somewhat wealthy, village community. There was a minimum of restrictions, and patients were relatively free to walk or drive in the grounds, go to church on Sundays, pay a weekly visit to the theatre, go to the local shop or attend hospital. 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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