Basic Site Details Name: | Carstairs State Institution | Town, district or village: | Carstairs | City or county: | Lanarkshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | '11 separate buildings in the scheme[:] five blocks of living accomodation, a hall/occupational therapy unit, administrative block, boilerhouse, search lodge and two ancillary buildings for staff cycles and gardeners' tools, etc...Facilities for recreation are provided in a bowling green and football pitch...at the south end of the site.' 'Throughout, the walls are brick cavity construction, roughcast and with stone dressing. The floors and ceilings are of concrete, the former finished with acid-resisting asphalt. The roofs are slated. Oyster, cream and peral-grey colours have been used externally on the various blocks. ...The cost of the scheme was approximately 330,000.' per Builder pp307-310 | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Psychiatric hospital | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1956 | 1958 | Build/construction | | | 22 January 1960 | | Build/construction | 'London (MoW).-Contracts for week ended January 22: ...Lanarkshire: ...State Mental Hospital and State Institution, Carstairs, erection, J. Wight & Co. (Edinburgh), Earls Gate-wks., Grangemouth' per Builder p299 | | 1973 | 1976 | Build/construction | Addition of gatehouse | | Mid 1990s | | Rehabilitation | West wing revamped (three new wards, seven refurbished and extended wards, five therapy units and a building converted into a church). East wing put up for sale per Scotsman 7 June 1996. |
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Glendinning, M, MacInnes, R and MacKechnie, A | 1996 | A History of Scottish Architecture | | | p589 | | Glendinning, Miles | 1997 | Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75 | | Tuckwell Press Ltd | p4 Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange | | RIBA | 1981 | Directory of Practices 1981 | | | |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Builder | 22 August 1958 | | | 'Carstairs State Institution, Lanarkshire' pp307-310; includes site photos and site plan, photos of individual buildings/details and block floorplans, as well as discussion of layout details | | Builder | 5 September 1958 | | | 'Carstairs State Institution' p395 | | Builder | 5 February 1960 | | | 'Tenders' p299 | | Builder | 7 July 1961 | | | 'Scottish Ministry Architect Retires' p18 | | Scotsman | 7 June 1996 | | | |
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