Description

David MacGibbon and Ross, circa 1878. 2-storey, irregular-plan Baronial villa, converted for use as hospital by addition of Art Deco W wing (J Douglas Miller, 1934); now in use as residential nursing home. Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing string course; eaves cornice; long and short quoins; chamfered reveals.

S ENTRANCE elevation: 3-bay, with service wings recessed to E and W. Corniced doorpiece in central bay; architraved and shouldered doorway; 2-leaf panelled door; plate glass fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Advanced gabled bay to outer right; advanced tripartite window at ground; advanced bipartite window with canopy at 1st floor; bipartite window in gablehead; stone finial. Canted window in bay to outer left, corbelled out at 1st floor and corbelled to square at gablehead; trefoil-headed window set in gablehead; stone finial.

E ELEVATION: single window at 1st floor flanking 3-storey circular-section tower; fishscale slates to conical roof; iron weathervane finial. SERVICE WINGS AND CHAPEL: single storey pitched roof service wing to W; single storey and attic link from main house to single storey, pitched roof, T-plan service wing to E; laundry converted to chapel (A Murray Hardie,1919, enlarged by W J Devlin,1928). Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks; polygonal stack adjoining tower; some original rainwater goods, including moulded eaves guttering and hoppers. 1934 wing: 2-storey, butterfly-plan with central round-arched entrance block and flat roof. GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: 2 capped ashlar gatepiers with chamfered angles at corner of Blackford Avenue and South Oswald Road; high coped boundary walls to streets; pedestrian gateways through slapping to Blackford Avenue and Oswald Road.

Statement of Interest

St Raphael's, originally known as Kilravock Lodge, was built for Hugh Rose on one of three sites in the Grange area owned by David MacGibbon. Ashfield, MacGibbon's own house on Grange Loan, has been demolished, but St Oswald Lodge on Oswald Road still remains (see separate listing). There are a number of more recent buildings within the curtilage of St Raphaels, including the flat-roofed addition to the N of the chapel and residential accommodation further N, which are not included in the listing.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805346

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