Aberdeen Convalescent Hospital (former), Craigton Road, Cults

Dating from 1895-97, the former Aberdeen Convalescent Hospital was designed by William and John Smith and Kelly. It is a two-storey and attic, nine-bay, roughly T-plan building constructed in squared and snecked pink granite. The gables have Arts and Crafts style half-timbering and moulded bargeboards. The hospital is on an elevated rubble terrace bounded by later railings, within formerly landscaped grounds and is to the northwest of the suburb of Cults on the edge of Aberdeen.
The principal (south) elevation is largely symmetrical. The advanced end bays each have a tripartite ground floor window and a bipartite first floor window. There are moulded and straight hoodmoulds above the ground floor windows. There is a timber veranda (with later glazing) running the full width of the ground floor between the projecting end bays. There are two central gablets, one breaking the roof eaves and one on the roof ridge.
The side elevation of the rear section of the building has two rectangular dormer windows and a projecting bay at the ground floor. Adjoining the rear gable is a single-storey L-plan outshot with piended roof and a lantern.
The windows are a mixture of glazing patterns, predominantly 15-pane in timber sash and case frames. The roofs are pitched, gabled and slated. Below the overhanging eaves are painted timber rafter ends. There are several tall chimneystacks of varying sizes and with clay pots. The chimneystacks are predominantly along the ridge. The building has later external metal staircases to the side and rear elevations which are excluded from the listing.

29 January 2020: Local planners put forward the building for possible inclusion on the Register as it is currently boarded up and has been unoccupied since 2014.

23 June 2021: External inspection finds the building vacant and gradually decaying. The roof shows evidence of slipped and broken slates. Rainwater goods are missing in parts and damaged. Those that survive are in need of maintenance. Windows and doors are boarded up. Property set in extensive grounds but large scale housing developments surround it.