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Standing Building Recording
Date May 2009
Event ID 606401
Category Recording
Type Standing Building Recording
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606401
NT 25248 73036 A Level 2 historic building survey was undertaken in May 2009 before the partial demolition and renovation of the building. The hospital was constructed in the 1860s with a bequest from plumber George Chalmers and closed in 2008. The original building, a 17 x 1 bay four-storey building in ashlar with an elaborate entrance bay, consisted of four main wards on two floors on either side of a central block. It had been extended to the S with the addition of verandas to the main wards, a two-storey block to the SW and a large 1930s Y-block. Despite being modified to accommodate the needs of a modern hospital the building had retained some of its original internal features; including cornicing, some timber panelling to the windows
and fireplace surrounds.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended)
Funder: NHS Lothian
Diana Sproat – AOC Archaeology Group
