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Caird Wing, Dundee Royal Infirmary, Barrack Road, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4662 / 56°27'58"N

Longitude: -2.9817 / 2°58'53"W

OS Eastings: 339612

OS Northings: 730881

OS Grid: NO396308

Mapcode National: GBR Z8M.NH

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.5QFT

Plus Code: 9C8VF289+F8

Entry Name: Caird Wing, Dundee Royal Infirmary, Barrack Road, Dundee

Listing Name: Barrack Road and Dudhope Terrace, Caird Wing, Dundee Royal Infirmary

Listing Date: 15 July 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361832

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25543

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, Barrack Road, Dundee Royal Infirmary, Caird Wing

ID on this website: 200361832

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Coldside

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

James Findlay, 1907. Robust 3-storey and attic symmetrical stacks of wards with N European-influenced towers to each side of operating theatre. Red engineering brick with artifical stone dressings, cill and band courses.

S elevation of each stack of wards has full-height glazed steel-framed and steel-clad verandahs, perhaps added in 1920s-30s and originally more open as part of the cure. Tall, near free-standing, 4-storey toilet and stair towers with 2 and 3-light slit windows to rear of Operating Theatre.

3-bay gables. Modern day room added to ground floor of W gable.

N elevation brick with centre stair tower. Ground floor swept-roofed porch between flat-roofed projections. Upper floor links between wards by 'Bridges of Sighs' with low mullioned strip windows.

Piended red tiled roofs with swept overhanging eaves and swept-roofed dormers. Windows mainly 4-light casement and top-hoppers.

INTERIOR: steel beams span load bearing walls. Segmental arched doorways to wards. Collare beam roofs.

Operating Theatre (and basement Orthotic Department). Polygonal-shaped, blind except small basement windows. Pilaster strips to metal railed balconies. Large windows over now blocked. Coved cornice. Tiled roof. Glazed plant room added to roof at S elevation.

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