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Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Royal Infirmary, Red Home
Hospital (19th Century), Residential Building (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Royal Infirmary, Red Home
Classification Hospital (19th Century), Residential Building (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Shopping Precinct; Nurses Home
Canmore ID 123689
Site Number NT27SE 480.05
NGR NT 25543 72948
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/123689
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
Designed by Sydney Mitchell c.1890. Square red brick former nurses home, built around a central courtyard with two-storey central section with Dutch gable and corner towers with mansard roofs. Built in red brick, a slight rarity in the more familiar exterior stonework of the city and in the Queen Anne style, popular in the late C19.
Demolished as part of the Quartermile project, though originally to have survived. One tower and cupola have since been rebuilt near to the original site.
Information from RCAHMS (CAJS) 2007.
See also:
NT27SE 480.00 Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Royal Infirmary, General
NT27SE 480.01 Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Royal Infirmary, Surgical Pavilion
NT27SE 480.02 Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Royal Infirmary, Medical Hospital and Jubilee Pavilion
NT27SE 480.03 Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Royal Infirmary, Ear and Throat Pavilion
NT27SE 480.04 Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Royal Infirmary, Opthalmological Pavilion
NT27SE 480.06 Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Royal Infirmary, Lodge
NT27SE 480.15 Nurses Home Courtyard, fountain
Photographic Survey (30 July 2007)
Photographic record carried out by the Threatened Buildings Survey in 2007 prior to demolition.
Information from RCAHMS (CAJS) 2010.
