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Nurses' Home -view from W Digital image of E 3971 cn

SC 776772

Description Nurses' Home -view from W Digital image of E 3971 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776772

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Nurses' Home, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the west This impressive harled and painted building, constructed on an H-plan, was built downhill from the main asylum so as not to disrupt the view for patients. The two-storeyed central section has an advanced entrance block (centre), and a line of unusual dormer windows. The two large three-storeyed gabled wings have stone margins around the windows and cast-iron downpipes with distinctive rainwater heads. The nurses' home was built to provide on-site accommodation for the increased number of nursing staff required when the asylum's intake of patients increased dramatically in the early 20th century. The home was built on a splendid south-facing hillside site, with uninterrupted views to the south. It was within a short walking distance of the main asylum, and had its own tennis courts and cricket grounds. 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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