Basic Site Details Name: | Princess Margaret Rose Hospital (included clinical and nurses' training unit) | City or county: | Edinburgh | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | Demolished | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Was B Listed. | Alternative NamesThe following alternative names are associated with this building/design: | | Name | Current name? | Notes | | Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital | Yes | |
Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Hospital | | |
Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes | | Frogston Road West | Yes | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1929 | 1932 | Construction | First two wards | | 1932 | | Opened | Third ward | | 1936 | | | Fourth ward | | 1952 | | Proposed | Proposal for £100,000 addition | | 5 September 1952 * | | Addition | Dean of Guild Court grants approval for two new hospital ward units and a service link unit, costing approximately £100,000 - to be two-storey, prefabricated construction, linked to main hospital by a corridor | | 1960 | 1968 | Addition | Additions - including Clinical Unit (1960-65), lecture theatre, prosthetic department. theatre block (1967), plant room, and nurses' recreation hall (1968). | | 2002 | | Damage | Fire damage | | 2003 | | Destruction/demolition | Demolition Proposed for the Morris and Steedman prosthetics clinic. Plans to redevelop the site with 103 luxury appartements and detached houses, designed by Malcolm Fraser for Bryant Homes. |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | Ian Gordon Lindsay | | A | 1929 | 1930 | Designed nurses' home, as assistant to Fairlie; completed by Fairlie after he left | | Reginald Francis Joseph Fairlie | | A | 1929 | 1939 | | | Stewart Kaye & Walls | | | 1952 * | | | | James Shepherd Morris | | B | 1960 | 1968 | Additions, including Clinical Unit, lecture theatre and prosthetic department | | Morris & Steedman | | B | 1960 | 1968 | Additions, including Clinical Unit, lecture theatre and prosthetic department | | Robert Russell Steedman | | B | 1960 | 1968 | Additions, including Clinical Unit, lecture theatre and prosthetic department | | Malcolm Fraser | | A | 2003 | | Scheme designed for the redevelopment of the Prosthetics Clinic, to include 103 flats and detached houses. Unclear if carried out. |
* earliest date known from documented sources. ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | South Regional Hospital Board | 1952 addition |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Bailey, Rebecca M | 1996 | Scottish architects' papers: a source book | | Edinburgh: The Rutland Press | p131 | | Gifford, John, McWilliam, Colin and Walker, David M | 1984 | Edinburgh (The Buildings of Scotland) | | Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd | pp74, 568 | | Glendinning, M, MacInnes, R and MacKechnie, A | 1996 | A History of Scottish Architecture | | | p585 | | Nuttgens, Patrick | 1959 | Reginald Fairlie 1883-1952: A Scottish Architect | | Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd | p42 (Nuttgens is not quite correct in referring to completion of nurses' home: this was designed by his assistant Ian G Lindsay under Fairlie's supervision and completed by Fairlie after Lindsay left) | | Richardson, Harriet | N.D. | Scottish Hospitals Survey | | Unpublished typescript (copy in DMW Archive) | | | RSA | 1934 | | | | 582 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Architect and Building News | 1935 | Jul-Dec | | p110 | | Architectural Review | August 1986 | CXL, 834 | | p92 | | Builder | 18 January 1952 | | | p137 | | Builder | 5 September 1952 | | | p349 | | Edinburgh Evening News | 15 May 2003 | | | Heritage Groups Try to Stop Developer Demolishing Hispital Wing, by Brian Ferguson | | Lancet | 20 March 1929 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 30327 | |
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